Jekyll and Hyde Study Pack

AQA GCSE Literature Paper 1
Literature Paper 1:
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Name: Class:
CONTENTS:
1. Chapter 1: Story of the Door 5-14
a. Chapter 1 Text 5-9
b. Chapter 1 Activities 10-12
c. Chapter 1 Quote Bank 13
d. Chapter 1 Practice Question 14
2. Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde 15-27
3. Chapter 3: Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease 28-33
4. Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case 34-42
5. Chapter 5: Incident of the Letter 43-51
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6. Chapter 6: Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon 52-59
7. Chapter 7: Incident at the Window 60-65
8. Chapter 8: The Last Night 66-82
9. Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon’s Narrative 83-92
10. Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case 93-112
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d. Chapter 10 Practice Question 111-112
11. Additional Revision Notes: Key Context and Themes 113-117
12. Notes 118-128
Chapter 1: The Story of The Door
MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was
never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse;
backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.
At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something
5 eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never
found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of
the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was
austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for
vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of
10 one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others;
sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits
involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to
reprove.
"I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the
15 devil in his own way." In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the
last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-
going men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers,
he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.
No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at
20 the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar
catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his
friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the
lawyer's way. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had
known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they
25 implied no aptness in the object. Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him
to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It
was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or
what subject they could find in common. It was reported by those who
encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked
30 singularly dull, and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.
For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted
them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of
pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them
uninterrupted.
35 It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street
in a busy quarter of London. The street was small and what is called quiet, but
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it drove a thriving trade on the week-days. The inhabitants were all doing
well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the
surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that
40 thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen. Even on
Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of
passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a
fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and
general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye
45 of the passenger.
Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east, the line was broken
by the entry of a court; and just at that point, a certain sinister block of
building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two stories high; showed
no window, nothing but a door on the lower story and a blind forehead of
50 discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of
prolonged and sordid negligence. The door, which was equipped with
neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched into
the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the
steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a
55 generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to
repair their ravages.
Mr. Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by-street; but when
they came abreast of the entry, the former lifted up his cane and pointed.
"Did you ever remark that door?" he asked; and when his companion had
60 replied in the affirmative, "It is connected in my mind," added he, "with a very
odd story."
"Indeed?" said Mr. Utterson, with a slight change of voice, "and what was
that?"
"Well, it was this way," returned Mr. Enfield: "I was coming home from some
65 place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning,
and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to
be seen but lamps. Street after street, and all the folks asleep—street after
street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church—till at
last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to
70 long for the sight of a policeman. All at once, I saw two figures: one a little
man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl
of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross
street. Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner;
and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly
75 over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing
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to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned
Juggernaut. I gave a view-halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman,
and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the
screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave
80 me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running. The
people who had turned out were the girl's own family; and pretty soon, the
doctor, for whom she had been sent, put in his appearance. Well, the child
was not much the worse, more frightened, according to the Sawbones; and
there you might have supposed would be an end to it. But there was one
85 curious circumstance. I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight. So
had the child's family, which was only natural. But the doctor's case was what
struck me. He was the usual cut-and-dry apothecary, of no particular age
and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent, and about as emotional as a
bagpipe. Well, sir, he was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my
90 prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him. I
knew what was in his mind, just as he knew what was in mine; and killing
being out of the question, we did the next best. We told the man we could
and would make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink
from one end of London to the other. If he had any friends or any credit, we
95 undertook that he should lose them. And all the time, as we were pitching it
in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could, for they
were as wild as harpies. I never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there
was the man in the middle, with a kind of black, sneering coolness—
frightened too, I could see that—but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan. 'If you
100 choose to make capital out of this accident,' said he, 'I am naturally helpless.
No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,' says he. 'Name your figure.' Well,
we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child's family; he would
have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something about the lot of us
that meant mischief, and at last he struck. The next thing was to get the
105 money; and where do you think he carried us but to that place with the
door?— whipped out a key, went in, and presently came back with the
matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts's,
drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can't mention,
though it's one of the points of my story, but it was a name at least very well-
110 known and often printed. The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for
more than that, if it was only genuine. I took the liberty of pointing out to my
gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does
not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of
it with another man's cheque for close upon a hundred pounds. But he was
115 quite easy and sneering. 'Set your mind at rest,' says he, 'I will stay with you till
the banks open and cash the cheque myself.' So we all set off, the doctor,
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and the child's father, and our friend and myself, and passed the rest of the
night in my chambers; and next day, when we had breakfasted, went in a
body to the bank. I gave in the check myself, and said I had every reason to
120 believe it was a forgery. Not a bit of it. The cheque was genuine."
"Tut-tut," said Mr. Utterson.
"I see you feel as I do," said Mr. Enfield. "Yes, it's a bad story. For my man was a
fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the
person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated
125 too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call
good. Black-mail, I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for
some of the capers of his youth. Black-Mail House is what I call that place
with the door, in consequence. Though even that, you know, is far from
explaining all," he added, and with the words fell into a vein of musing.
130 From this he was recalled by Mr. Utterson asking rather suddenly:
"And you don't know if the drawer of the cheque lives there?"
"A likely place, isn't it?" returned Mr. Enfield. "But I happen to have noticed his
address; he lives in some square or other."
"And you never asked about the—place with the door?" said Mr.
135 Utterson.
"No, sir: I had a delicacy," was the reply. "I feel very strongly about putting
questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start
a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and
away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the
140 last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back-
garden and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of
mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
"A very good rule, too," said the lawyer.
"But I have studied the place for myself," continued Mr. Enfield. "It seems
145 scarcely a house. There is no other door, and nobody goes in or out of that
one but, once in a great while, the gentleman of my adventure. There are
three windows looking on the court on the first floor; none below; the
windows are always shut but they're clean. And then there is a chimney
which is generally smoking; so somebody must live there. And yet it's not so
150 sure; for the buildings are so packed together about that court, that it's hard
to say where one ends and another begins."
The pair walked on again for a while in silence; and then,
"Enfield," said Mr. Utterson, "that's a good rule of yours."
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"Yes, I think it is," returned Enfield.
155 "But for all that," continued the lawyer, "there's one point I want to ask: I want
to ask the name of that man who walked over the child."
"Well," said Mr. Enfield, "I can't see what harm it would do. It was a man of the
name of Hyde."
"H'm," said Mr. Utterson. "What sort of a man is he to see?"
160 "He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance;
something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I
so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he
gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point. He's
an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the
165 way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can't describe him. And it's not want
of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment."
Mr. Utterson again walked some way in silence and obviously under a weight
of consideration.
"You are sure he used a key?" he inquired at last.
170 "My dear sir…" began Enfield, surprised out of himself.
"Yes, I know," said Utterson; "I know it must seem strange. The fact is, if I do not
ask you the name of the other party, it is because I know it already. You see,
Richard, your tale has gone home. If you have been inexact in any point, you
had better correct it."
175 "I think you might have warned me," returned the other, with a touch of
sullenness. "But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow had
a key; and what's more, he has it still. I saw him use it, not a week ago."
Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man
presently resumed. "Here is another lesson to say nothing," said he. "I am
180 ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this
again."
"With all my heart," said the lawyer. "I shake hands on that, Richard."
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Chapter 1 Activities
a) Vocabulary Match-Up
Word Definition
a) in the Bible, Cain (who had
1. countenance murdered his brother) asked ‘Am I
my brother’s keeper?’
2. discourse b) notice
3. backward in sentiment c) lack of care and maintenance
4. austere d) conversation
5. mortify a taste for vintages e) stained
f) Creatures from Greek mythology –

6. Cain’s heresy
half woman, half bird
g) A slang expression meaning
7. Negligence
‘getting into trouble’ or ‘debt’
8. Distained h) Agreed
i) A huge creature or machine that

9. Remark
crushes all before it
10. Replied in the affirmative j) Said ‘yes’
k) The huntsman’s shout when the fox

11. Juggernaut
is sighted
12. View halloa l) Face
13. Sawbones m) Reputation, good name
n) Person who prepares or sells

14. Apothecary
medicines (a low-paid doctor)
15. Credit o) Strict
16. Harpies p) Slang for doctor
17. Struck q) Slow to show emotion
18. Queer street r) Extra careful about the details
19. Pedantically exact s) Get rid of his love for good wine
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b) Chapter 1 Cloze Activity
Fill in the blanks to test your knowledge on what happens in each chapter
Mr Utterson is a boring but ‘loveable’ lawyer who people get help from when
they are in _____________. He is friends with a cousin, Enfield, and goes on
regular walks with him on Sundays. One Sunday, they pass a dirty __________
in a poor area. Enfield tells Utterson a story about the door and the man that
lives behind it. He says he saw a small, revolting man ___________ a small
________ at 3am in the morning. A crowd, led by Enfield, confronted the man
and forced him to pay ____________ in compensation. The man gave them a
cheque, which we learn at the very end of the chapter was signed by
__________________- a very ___________________person. No one believed that
the cheque was ____________ but they later found out that it was. Utterson is
worried that Jekyll is being ______________ by Mr Hyde.
Henry Jekyll genuine door trouble
respectable blackmailed trample on £100 girl
c) Chapter 1 Short Answer Questions:
1. Re-read lines 1-25. What sort of person is Mr Utterson? How does

Stevenson use language to present him as a typical Victorian gentleman?
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2. Re-read lines 26-45. What is Mr Utterson’s relationship to Mr Enfield? How

are the two men alike? How are they different?
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3. Re-read the description of the door (ll. 46-56). How does Stevenson use
setting to convey a sense of Mr Hyde’s character before we meet him?
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4. Re-read Mr Enfield’s account of meeting Mr Hyde (ll. 64-120). How does

Stevenson use language here to create the impression that Hyde is an evil
and immoral character? (Choose three short quotes to analyse.)
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5. What is surprising about the cheque that Hyde gives the family? Why is this
significant to the story?
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6. Re-read ll. 121-182. Why do you think Stevenson opens the novel with this
chapter? How does it help to create a sense of mystery for the reader?
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d) Chapter 1 Quotation Bank
Choose 5 significant quotations from Chapter 1 to memorise.

Social/Historical Context
CHAPTER 1: STORY OF THE DOOR
Connotations or Effect
Quotation
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e) Chapter 1 Practice Question
Read the following extract from Chapter 1 and then answer the question that
follows.
In this extract Mr Enfield describes his encounter with Mr Hyde.
"Well, it was this way," returned Mr. Enfield: "I was coming home from
some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black
winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there
was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street, and all
5 the folks asleep—street after street, all lighted up as if for a
procession and all as empty as a church—till at last I got into that
state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for
the sight of a policeman. All at once, I saw two figures: one a little
man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the
10 other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she
was able down a cross street. Well, sir, the two ran into one another
naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of
the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left
her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was
15 hellish to see. It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned
Juggernaut. I gave a view-halloa, took to my heels, collared my
gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite
a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and
made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought
20 out the sweat on me like running. The people who had turned out
were the girl's own family; and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she
had been sent, put in his appearance. Well, the child was not much
the worse, more frightened, according to the Sawbones; and there
you might have supposed would be an end to it. But there was one
25 curious circumstance. I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at
first sight. So had the child's family, which was only natural. But the
doctor's case was what struck me.
Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present Mr Hyde as

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naturally evil?
Write about:
o How Stevenson presents Mr Hyde in this extract
o How Stevenson presents Mr Hyde as naturally evil in the novel as a
whole.
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Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde
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THAT evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits
and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of a Sunday, when this
meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his
reading-desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of
5 twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed. On this night,
however, as soon as the cloth was taken away, he took up a candle and
went into his business-room. There he opened his safe, took from the most
private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll's Will,
and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents. The will was
10 holograph, for Mr. Utterson, though he took charge of it now that it was
made, had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it; it provided
not only that, in case of the decease of Henry Jekyll, M.D., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S.,
etc., all his possessions were to pass into the hands of his "friend and
benefactor Edward Hyde," but that in case of Dr. Jekyll's "disappearance or
15 unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months," the
said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further
delay and free from any burthen or obligation, beyond the payment of a few
small sums to the members of the doctor's household. This document had
long been the lawyer's eyesore. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a
20 lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the
immodest. And hitherto it was his ignorance of Mr. Hyde that had swelled his
indignation; now, by a sudden turn, it was his knowledge. It was already bad
enough when the name was but a name of which he could learn no more. It
was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and
25 out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there
leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.
"I thought it was madness," he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in
the safe, "and now I begin to fear it is disgrace."
With that he blew out his candle, put on a great-coat, and set forth in the
30 direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the
great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding patients. "If any
one knows, it will be Lanyon," he had thought.
The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was subjected to no stage of
delay, but ushered direct from the door to the dining-room where Dr. Lanyon
35 sat alone over his wine. This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced
gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and
decided manner. At sight of Mr. Utterson, he sprang up from his chair and
welcomed him with both hands. The geniality, as was the way of the man,
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was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling. For
40 these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both
thorough respecters of themselves and of each other, and, what does not
always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company.
After a little rambling talk, the lawyer led up to the subject which so
disagreeably pre-occupied his mind.
45 "I suppose, Lanyon," said he "you and I must be the two oldest friends that
Henry Jekyll has?"
"I wish the friends were younger," chuckled Dr. Lanyon. "But I suppose we are.
And what of that? I see little of him now."
"Indeed?" said Utterson. "I thought you had a bond of common interest."
50 "We had," was the reply. "But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll
became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and
though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as
they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific
balderdash," added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have
55 estranged Damon and Pythias."
This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr. Utterson. "They have
only differed on some point of science," he thought; and being a man of no
scientific passions (except in the matter of conveyancing), he even added:
"It is nothing worse than that!" He gave his friend a few seconds to recover his
60 composure, and then approached the question he had come to put. "Did
you ever come across a protege of his—one Hyde?" he asked.
"Hyde?" repeated Lanyon. "No. Never heard of him. Since my time."
That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried back with him to
the great, dark bed on which he tossed to and fro, until the small hours of the
65 morning began to grow large. It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind,
toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.
Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to
Mr. Utterson's dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem. Hitherto it had
touched him on the intellectual side alone; but now his imagination also was
70 engaged, or rather enslaved; and as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness
of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield's tale went by before his
mind in a scroll of lighted pictures. He would be aware of the great field of
lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of
a child running from the doctor's; and then these met, and that human
75 Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams. Or
else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep,
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dreaming and smiling at his dreams; and then the door of that room would
be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the sleeper recalled, and
lo! there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and
80 even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding. The figure in these
two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it
was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the
more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider
labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street-corner crush a child and
85 leave her screaming. And still the figure had no face by which he might know
it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted
before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the
lawyer's mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the
features of the real Mr. Hyde. If he could but once set eyes on him, he
90 thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was
the habit of mysterious things when well examined. He might see a reason for
his friend's strange preference or bondage (call it which you please) and
even for the startling clause of the will. At least it would be a face worth
seeing: the face of a man who was without bowels of mercy: a face which
95 had but to show itself to raise up, in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield,
a spirit of enduring hatred. "But for all that," continued the lawyer, "there's one
point I want to ask: I want to ask the name of that man who walked over the
child."
"Well," said Mr. Enfield, "I can't see what harm it would do. It was a man of the
100 name of Hyde."
"H'm," said Mr. Utterson. "What sort of a man is he to see?"
"He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance;
something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I
so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he
105 gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point. He's
an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the
way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can't describe him. And it's not want
of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment."
Mr. Utterson again walked some way in silence and obviously under a weight
110 of consideration.
"You are sure he used a key?" he inquired at last.
"My dear sir…" began Enfield, surprised out of himself.
"Yes, I know," said Utterson; "I know it must seem strange. The fact is, if I do not
ask you the name of the other party, it is because I know it already. You see,
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115 Richard, your tale has gone home. If you have been inexact in any point, you
had better correct it."
"I think you might have warned me," returned the other, with a touch of
sullenness. "But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow had
a key; and what's more, he has it still. I saw him use it, not a week ago."
120 Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man
presently resumed. "Here is another lesson to say nothing," said he. "I am
ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this
again."
"With all my heart," said the lawyer. "I shake hands on that, Richard."
125 From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street
of shops. In the morning before office hours, at noon when business was
plenty, and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by
all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found
on his chosen post.
130 "If he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek."
And at last his patience was rewarded. It was a fine dry night; frost in the air;
the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken, by any wind,
drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow. By ten o'clock, when the
shops were closed, the by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the low
135 growl of London from all round, very silent. Small sounds carried far; domestic
sounds out of the houses were clearly audible on either side of the roadway;
and the rumour of the approach of any passenger preceded him by a long
time. Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of
an odd, light footstep drawing near. In the course of his nightly patrols, he
140 had long grown accustomed to the quaint effect with which the footfalls of a
single person, while he is still a great way off, suddenly spring out distinct from
the vast hum and clatter of the city. Yet his attention had never before been
so sharply and decisively arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious
prevision of success that he withdrew into the entry of the court.
145 The steps drew swiftly nearer, and swelled out suddenly louder as they turned
the end of the street. The lawyer, looking forth from the entry, could soon see
what manner of man he had to deal with. He was small and very plainly
dressed, and the look of him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly
against the watcher's inclination. But he made straight for the door, crossing
150 the roadway to save time; and as he came, he drew a key from his pocket
like one approaching home.
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Mr. Utterson stepped out and touched him on the shoulder as he passed. "Mr.
Hyde, I think?"
Mr. Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath. But his fear was only
155 momentary; and though he did not look the lawyer in the face, he answered
coolly enough: "That is my name. What do you want?"
"I see you are going in," returned the lawyer. "I am an old friend of Dr.
Jekyll's—Mr. Utterson of Gaunt Street—you must have heard my name; and
meeting you so conveniently, I thought you might admit me."
160 "You will not find Dr. Jekyll; he is from home," replied Mr. Hyde, blowing in the
key. And then suddenly, but still without looking up, "How did you know me?"
he asked.
"On your side," said Mr. Utterson, "will you do me a favour?"
"With pleasure," replied the other. "What shall it be?"
165 "Will you let me see your face?" asked the lawyer.
Mr. Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then, as if upon some sudden reflection,
fronted about with an air of defiance; and the pair stared at each other
pretty fixedly for a few seconds. "Now I shall know you again," said Mr.
Utterson. "It may be useful."
170 "Yes," returned Mr. Hyde, "it is as well we have, met; and a propos, you should
have my address." And he gave a number of a street in Soho.
"Good God!" thought Mr. Utterson, "can he, too, have been thinking of the
will?" But he kept his feelings to himself and only grunted in acknowledgment
of the address.
175 "And now," said the other, "how did you know me?"
"By description," was the reply.
"Whose description?"
"We have common friends," said Mr. Utterson.
"Common friends?" echoed Mr. Hyde, a little hoarsely. "Who are they?"
180 "Jekyll, for instance," said the lawyer.
"He never told you," cried Mr. Hyde, with a flush of anger. "I did not think you
would have lied."
"Come," said Mr. Utterson, "that is not fitting language."
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The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh; and the next moment, with
185 extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the
house.
The lawyer stood awhile when Mr. Hyde had left him, the picture of
disquietude. Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or
two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity. The
190 problem he was thus debating as he walked, was one of a class that is rarely
solved. Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity
without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had
borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and
boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken
195 voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could
explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing, and fear with which Mr.
Utterson regarded him. "There must be something else," said the perplexed
gentleman. "There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless
me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? or
200 can it be the old story of Dr. Fell? or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that
thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent? The last, I think;
for, O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it
is on that of your new friend."
Round the corner from the by-street, there was a square of ancient,
205 handsome houses, now for the most part decayed from their high estate and
let in flats and chambers to all sorts and conditions of men: map-engravers,
architects, shady lawyers, and the agents of obscure enterprises. One house,
however, second from the corner, was still occupied entire; and at the door
of this, which wore a great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now
210 plunged in darkness except for the fan-light, Mr. Utterson stopped and
knocked. A well-dressed, elderly servant opened the door.
"Is Dr. Jekyll at home, Poole?" asked the lawyer.
"I will see, Mr. Utterson," said Poole, admitting the visitor, as he spoke, into a
large, low-roofed, comfortable hall, paved with flags, warmed (after the
215 fashion of a country house) by a bright, open fire, and furnished with costly
cabinets of oak. "Will you wait here by the fire, sir? or shall I give you a light in
the dining room?"
"Here, thank you," said the lawyer, and he drew near and leaned on the tall
fender. This hall, in which he was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend
220 the doctor's; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest
room in London. But to-night there was a shudder in his blood; the face of
Hyde sat heavy on his memory; he felt (what was rare with him) a nausea
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and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a
menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the
225 uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof. He was ashamed of his relief,
when Poole presently returned to announce that Dr. Jekyll was gone out.
"I saw Mr. Hyde go in by the old dissecting-room door, Poole," he said. "Is that
right, when Dr. Jekyll is from home?"
"Quite right, Mr. Utterson, sir," replied the servant. "Mr. Hyde has a key."
230 "Your master seems to repose a great deal of trust in that young man, Poole,"
resumed the other musingly.
"Yes, sir, he do indeed," said Poole. "We have all orders to obey him."
"I do not think I ever met Mr. Hyde?" asked Utterson.
"O, dear no, sir. He never dines here," replied the butler. "Indeed we see very
235 little of him on this side of the house; he mostly comes and goes by the
laboratory."
"Well, good-night, Poole."
"Good-night, Mr. Utterson." And the lawyer set out homeward with a very
heavy heart. "Poor Harry Jekyll," he thought, "my mind misgives me he is in
240 deep waters! He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure;
but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. Ay, it must be that; the
ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment
coming, PEDE CLAUDO, years after memory has forgotten and self-love
condoned the fault." And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a
245 while on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance
some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there. His past was
fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less
apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had
done, and raised up again into a sober and fearful gratitude by the many
250 that he had come so near to doing, yet avoided. And then by a return on his
former subject, he conceived a spark of hope. "This Master Hyde, if he were
studied," thought he, "must have secrets of his own; black secrets, by the look
of him; secrets compared to which poor Jekyll's worst would be like sunshine.
Things cannot continue as they are. It turns me cold to think of this creature
255 stealing like a thief to Harry's bedside; poor Harry, what a wakening! And the
danger of it; for if this Hyde suspects the existence of the will, he may grow
impatient to inherit. Ay, I must put my shoulder to the wheel if Jekyll will but let
me," he added, "if Jekyll will only let me." For once more he saw before his
mind's eye, as clear as a transparency, the strange clauses of the will.
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a) Chapter 2 Cloze Activity

The lawyer Utterson is troubled by the ___________ that Henry Jekyll has written
because it hands over everything to _____________ if Jekyll dies or disappears
for more than three months.
Utterson visits _________________, a friend of Jekyll’s, to find out more, but

discovers that he has _______________ with Jekyll over the ‘unscientific’
experiments that Jekyll has been conducting.
That night, Utterson suffers from nightmares. In one nightmare, he sees the
figure of the man who trampled on the girl, and in another nightmare, the
same figure approaches a sleeping Jekyll and makes Jekyll do what he
wants. This figure has no __________.
On waking, Utterson is determined to find out what Hyde _________________ so

he spends his spare time standing by the ______________ where Hyde lives.
Eventually, one night, Hyde arrives and Utterson asks to look at his face. Hyde
shows it to him and then gives Utterson his ________________. Utterson realises
that Hyde is thinking about the will and is frightened for Jekyll.
When he goes to visit Jekyll, we realise something that Utterson has known for
a while- that the house that Hyde lives in is actually the ________________
attached to the back of Jekyll’s house. Utterson finds that Jekyll is out, and
learns from the butler, Poole, that Hyde has a ___________ to Jekyll’s
laboratory and the servants have orders to ______________ him. Utterson
leaves feeling very worried that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll.
face address fallen out will obey

looks like Edward Hyde laboratory key
door Dr Lanyon
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b) Vocabulary Match-Up
Word Definition
a) a person that gives help to a
1. endorsed
person or cause
b) to do with legal aspects of
2. decease
property
3. benefactor c) very great/without limit
4. protégé d) like a cave man

e) from Geek mythology - a maze of
5. conveyancing passages hiding a terrifying
monster (the Minotaur)
6. labyrinths f) signed on the back
7. inordinate g) accept bad behaviour
8. condone h) death
i) a person who is guided by an

9. iniquity
older/more experienced person
10. troglodytic j) evil/wrong-doing
1. Re-read lines 1-28. What does Mr Utterson find out about Dr Jekyll’s will?
Why is this significant?
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2. Re-read ll. 29-66. What does Lanyon tell Utterson about his friendship with
Jekyll? How does this link to the Victorian context of science and religion?
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3. Re-read lines 67-98. In Utterson’s nightmares, he sees Hyde without a face.
Why does Stevenson never tell us what Hyde’s face looks like?
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4. Why is it significant that Stevenson describes London as a ‘labyrinth’ (l.84)?

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5. Re-read lines 99-108. Select two words that Enfield uses to describe Hyde.
How this language create an impression that Hyde is evil?
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6. Re-read lines 125-203. Once Utterson confronts Hyde, how does he feel
toward him? What reasons does Utterson give for his feelings about Hyde?
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7. In line 199, Utterson describes Hyde as ‘troglodytic’. How does this link to
Victorian ideas of evolution, progress and Darwinishm? (see Context
section for more information on this)
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8. Re-read ll. 204-211. What does the description of the street and house in
which Jekyll lives reveal about his character?
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9. Re-read ll. 238-259. What do we learn from this about Henry Jekyll’s
history?
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10. Re-read ll. 238-259. What does Utterson believe about the relationship
between Jekyll and Hyde? How does Stevenson present Victorian beliefs
about morality and reputation in this paragraph? How is a sense of
mystery and suspense maintained at the end of this chapter?
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CHAPTER 2: SEARCH FOR MR HYDE
Quotation
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follows.
In this extract Mr Utterson has just met Mr Hyde for the first time.
‘We have common friends,’ said Mr Utterson. ‘Common friends!’

echoed Mr Hyde, a little hoarsely. ‘Who are they?’ ‘Jekyll, for
instance,’ said the lawyer. ‘He never told you,’ cried Mr Hyde, with a
flush of anger. ‘I did not think you would have lied.’ ‘Come,’ said Mr
5 Utterson, ‘that is not fitting language.’ The other snarled aloud into a
savage laugh; and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness,
he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.
The lawyer stood awhile when Mr Hyde had left him, the picture of
disquietude. Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing
10 every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in
mental perplexity. The problem he was thus debating as he walked
was one of a class that is rarely solved. Mr Hyde was pale and
dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable
malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to
15 the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness,
and he spoke with a husky whispering and somewhat broken voice,
– all these were points against him; but not all of these together
could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with
which Mr Utterson regarded him. ‘There must be something else,’
20 said the perplexed gentleman. ‘There is something more, if I could
find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human!
Something troglodytic, shall we say? Or can it be the old story of Dr
Fell? Or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires
through, and transfigures, its clay continent? The last, I think; for, O
25 my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face,
it is on that of your new friend!’
0 7 Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present Mr Hyde as a

frightening outsider?
Write about:
o How Stevenson presents Mr Hyde in this extract
o How Stevenson presents Mr Hyde as a frightening outsider in the novel
as a whole.
[30 marks]
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Chapter 3: Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease
0
A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his
pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men
and all judges of good wine; and Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained
behind after the others had departed. This was no new arrangement, but a
5 thing that had befallen many scores of times. Where Utterson was liked, he
was liked well. Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted
and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to
sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their
minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety. To this
10 rule, Dr. Jekyll was no exception; and as he now sat on the opposite side of
the fire—a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a
slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness—you could see
by his looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson a sincere and warm affection.
"I have been wanting to speak to you, Jekyll," began the latter. "You know
15 that will of yours?"
A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful; but the
doctor carried it off gaily. "My poor Utterson," said he, "you are unfortunate in
such a client. I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it
were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific
20 heresies. Oh, I know he's a good fellow—you needn't frown—an excellent
fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for
all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant. I was never more disappointed in any
man than Lanyon."
"You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding
25 the fresh topic.
"My will? Yes, certainly, I know that," said the doctor, a trifle sharply. "You have
told me so."
"Well, I tell you so again," continued the lawyer. "I have been learning
something of young Hyde."
30 The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there
came a blackness about his eyes. "I do not care to hear more," said he. "This is
a matter I thought we had agreed to drop."
"What I heard was abominable," said Utterson.
"It can make no change. You do not understand my position," returned the
35 doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. "I am painfully situated,
27
Utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one. It is one of those
affairs that cannot be mended by talking."
"Jekyll," said Utterson, "you know me: I am a man to be trusted. Make a clean
breast of this in confidence; and I make no doubt I can get you out of it."
40 "My good Utterson," said the doctor, "this is very good of you, this is downright
good of you, and I cannot find words to thank you in. I believe you fully; I
would trust you before any man alive, ay, before myself, if I could make the
choice; but indeed it isn't what you fancy; it is not so bad as that; and just to
put your good heart at rest, I will tell you one thing: the moment I choose, I
45 can be rid of Mr. Hyde. I give you my hand upon that; and I thank you again
and again; and I will just add one little word, Utterson, that I'm sure you'll take
in good part: this is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep."
Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire.
"I have no doubt you are perfectly right," he said at last, getting to his feet.
50 "Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I
hope," continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to
understand. I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde. I know you have
seen him; he told me so; and I fear he was rude. But, I do sincerely take a
great, a very great interest in that young man; and if I am taken away,
55 Utterson, I wish you to promise me that you will bear with him and get his
rights for him. I think you would, if you knew all; and it would be a weight off
my mind if you would promise."
"I can't pretend that I shall ever like him," said the lawyer.
"I don't ask that," pleaded Jekyll, laying his hand upon the other's arm; "I only
60 ask for justice; I only ask you to help him for my sake, when I am no longer
here."
Utterson heaved an irrepressible sigh. "Well," said he, "I promise."
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Word Definition
a) narrow-minded and old fashioned
1. unobtrusive
thinker
2. hide-bound pedant b) hold back
3. scientific heresies c) talk freely
4. abominable d) carelessly ignoring
5. cronies e) not making sense
6. detain f) in a difficult situation
7. loose tongues g) terrible, awful
h) Beliefs that go against established
8. solitude
scientific ideas
9. gaiety i) unable to be stopped
10. ruthlessly disregarding j) fun
11. distasteful k) friends
12. incoherency l) being alone
13. painfully situated m) start fresh
14. clean breast n) not showy or demanding
15. irrepressible o) unpleasant

A fortnight (two weeks) later, Jekyll has a ____________ party. Utterson remains
behind so he can speak to Jekyll about why he is worried about Jekyll’s will;
he tells Jekyll that he can be ______________ and urges Jekyll to tell him if he is
being _____________. Jekyll tells him that it isn’t blackmail and that he can get
rid of _____________ at any time he wishes. He asks Utterson to drop the matter
and make sure that he will help Hyde get what is in the will –i.e. everything
Jekyll owns- if he, Jekyll, _________________ or ____________.
blackmailed dies dinner Mr Hyde

trusted disappears
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1. Re-read lines 16-23. How does Jekyll describe Utterson? Why does he call
him a ‘pedant’? How does this link into Victorian beliefs about science?
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2. Re-read lines 30-48. How does Jekyll react when Utterson mentions Hyde?
What does Jekyll tell Utterson about Hyde and what does this reveal?
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3. Re-read lines 50-62. What does Jekyll make Utterson promise? How does
he justify giving his money and property to Hyde?
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4. Why is Utterson uneasy about making this promise to Jekyll? Why does he
agree to do so anyway? How does this link into the Victorian context of
the respectable gentleman?
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CHAPTER 3: DR JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
Quotation Connotations or Effect Social/Historical Context
31
Read the following extract from Chapter 3 and then answer the question.
In this extract Mr Utterson questions Mr Jekyll about his will.
"You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly

disregarding the fresh topic.
"My will? Yes, certainly, I know that," said the doctor, a trifle sharply.
"You have told me so."
5 "Well, I tell you so again," continued the lawyer. "I have been
learning something of young Hyde."
The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and
there came a blackness about his eyes. "I do not care to hear more,"
said he. "This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop."
10 "What I heard was abominable," said Utterson.
"It can make no change. You do not understand my position,"
returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. "I am
painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange—a very
strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by
15 talking."
"Jekyll," said Utterson, "you know me: I am a man to be trusted. Make
a clean breast of this in confidence; and I make no doubt I can get
you out of it."
"My good Utterson," said the doctor, "this is very good of you, this is
20 downright good of you, and I cannot find words to thank you in. I
believe you fully; I would trust you before any man alive, ay, before
myself, if I could make the choice; but indeed it isn't what you fancy;
it is not so bad as that; and just to put your good heart at rest, I will
tell you one thing: the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde. I
25 give you my hand upon that; and I thank you again and again; and
I will just add one little word, Utterson, that I'm sure you'll take in good
part: this is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep."
‘Dr Jekyll is foolish to think that he can control Mr Hyde.’

0 7
Starting with this extract, explore how far you agree with this statement.
Write about:
o How Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll in this extract
o How Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll’s relationship with Hyde in the novel
as a whole.
[30 marks]
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Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case
0
NEARLY a year later, in the month of October, 18—-, London was startled by a
crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high
position of the victim. The details were few and startling. A maid servant living
alone in a house not far from the river, had gone up-stairs to bed about
5 eleven. Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of
the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked,
was brilliantly lit by the full moon. It seems she was romantically given, for she
sat down upon her box, which stood immediately under the window, and fell
into a dream of musing. Never (she used to say, with streaming tears, when
10 she narrated that experience), never had she felt more at peace with all
men or thought more kindly of the world. And as she so sat she became
aware of an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair, drawing near
along the lane; and advancing to meet him, another and very small
gentleman, to whom at first she paid less attention. When they had come
15 within speech (which was just under the maid's eyes) the older man bowed
and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness. It did not
seem as if the subject of his address were of great importance; indeed, from
his pointing, it sometimes appeared as if he were only inquiring his way; but
the moon shone on his face as he spoke, and the girl was pleased to watch
20 it, it seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of
disposition, yet with something high too, as of a well-founded self-content.
Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she was surprised to recognise
in him a certain Mr. Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she
had conceived a dislike. He had in his hand a heavy cane, with which he
25 was trifling; but he answered never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill-
contained impatience. And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great
flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on
(as the maid described it) like a madman. The old gentleman took a step
back, with the air of one very much surprised and a trifle hurt; and at that Mr.
30 Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next
moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing
down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and
the body jumped upon the roadway. At the horror of these sights and
sounds, the maid fainted.
35 It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The
murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the
lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done,
although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in
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the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half
40 had rolled in the neighbouring gutter—the other, without doubt, had been
carried away by the murderer. A purse and a gold watch were found upon
the victim: but no cards or papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope,
which he had been probably carrying to the post, and which bore the name
and address of Mr. Utterson.
45 This was brought to the lawyer the next morning, before he was out of bed;
and he had no sooner seen it, and been told the circumstances, than he shot
out a solemn lip. "I shall say nothing till I have seen the body," said he; "this
may be very serious. Have the kindness to wait while I dress." And with the
same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the
50 police station, whither the body had been carried. As soon as he came into
the cell, he nodded.
"Yes," said he, "I recognise him. I am sorry to say that this is
Sir Danvers Carew."
"Good God, sir," exclaimed the officer, "is it possible?" And the next moment
55 his eye lighted up with professional ambition. "This will make a deal of noise,"
he said. "And perhaps you can help us to the man." And he briefly narrated
what the maid had seen, and showed the broken stick.
Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick
was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it
60 was, he recognised it for one that he had himself presented many years
before to Henry Jekyll.
"Is this Mr. Hyde a person of small stature?" he inquired.
"Particularly small and particularly wicked-looking, is what the maid calls him,"
said the officer.
65 Mr. Utterson reflected; and then, raising his head, "If you will come with me in
my cab," he said, "I think I can take you to his house."
It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the season. A
great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was
continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the
70 cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number
of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of
evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of
some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite
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broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the
75 swirling wreaths. The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing
glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which
had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this
mournful re-invasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of
some city in a nightmare. The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the
80 gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was
conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's officers, which
may at times assail the most honest.
As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and
showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating-house, a shop
85 for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children
huddled in the doorways, and many women of different nationalities passing
out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog
settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from
his blackguardly surroundings. This was the home of Henry Jekyll's favourite; of
90 a man who was heir to a quarter of a million sterling.
An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an
evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent. Yes, she
said, this was Mr. Hyde's, but he was not at home; he had been in that night
very late, but had gone away again in less than an hour; there was nothing
95 strange in that; his habits were very irregular, and he was often absent; for
instance, it was nearly two months since she had seen him till yesterday.
"Very well, then, we wish to see his rooms," said the lawyer; and when the
woman began to declare it was impossible, "I had better tell you who this
person is," he added. "This is Inspector Newcomen of Scotland Yard."
100 A flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman's face. "Ah!" said she, "he is
in trouble! What has he done?"
Mr. Utterson and the inspector exchanged glances. "He don't seem a very
popular character," observed the latter. "And now, my good woman, just let
me and this gentleman have a look about us."
105 In the whole extent of the house, which but for the old woman remained
otherwise empty, Mr. Hyde had only used a couple of rooms; but these were
furnished with luxury and good taste. A closet was filled with wine; the plate
was of silver, the napery elegant; a good picture hung upon the walls, a gift
(as Utterson supposed) from Henry Jekyll, who was much of a connoisseur;
110 and the carpets were of many plies and agreeable in colour. At this moment,
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however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly
ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast
drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as
though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector
115 disinterred the butt-end of a green cheque-book, which had resisted the
action of the fire; the other half of the stick was found behind the door; and
as this clinched his suspicions, the officer declared himself delighted. A visit to
the bank, where several thousand pounds were found to be lying to the
murderer's credit, completed his gratification.
120 "You may depend upon it, sir," he told Mr. Utterson: "I have him in my hand.
He must have lost his head, or he never would have left the stick or, above
all, burned the cheque-book. Why, money's life to the man. We have nothing
to do but wait for him at the bank, and get out the handbills."
This last, however, was not so easy of accomplishment; for Mr. Hyde had
125 numbered few familiars—even the master of the servant-maid had only seen
him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been
photographed; and the few who could describe him differed widely, as
common observers will. Only on one point, were they agreed; and that was
the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive
130 impressed his beholders.
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Word Definition
a) pub (often where illegal business
1. musing
was conducted)
2. gin palace b) lost courage
3. disposition c) serious face
4. high d) without feeling
5. singular e) spoke to
6. accosted f) remarkable
7. insensate g) noble
8. Grave countenance h) personality
9. quailed i) gloom (coffin blanket)
10. pall j) driving back the fog
11. conflagration k) table linen
12. odious l) friends
13. napery m) fire
14. gratification n) hateful
15. familiars o) day-dreaming
16. routing these embattled p) satisfaction at what he has

vapours discovered
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A year later, a maid is sitting at her window during the early hours of the
morning. She witnesses Mr Hyde, a man she knows, beat a polite, old
gentleman to ____________ with a stick, which _____________. She faints and
then, when she wakes up, contacts the police who find a letter addressed to
______________ on the body of the old man.
Called on early that morning by the police, Utterson identifies the body at the
police station as Sir Danvers Carew, one of his _____________. Utterson then
recognises the broken stick as ______________________. Inspector Newcomen
and he visit Hyde’s run down flat and find the _________________ there, and a
burnt ______________________. The inspector believes that all they have to do is
wait at the ______________ for Hyde to draw out money because he has no
way of getting any otherwise. However, Hyde wasn’t _______________ again.
Mr Utterson bank death broken stick clients

breaks Henry Jekyll’s cheque-book seen
1. Re-read lines 1-34. Summarise the events of Carew’s murder in your own
words.
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2. Focus on lines 26-34. How does Stevenson use language to present Hyde
as violent and animalistic?
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3. Why do you think Stevenson uses the maid to tell the story of Carew’s
murder?
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4. Re-read lines 35-66. Why is Utterson contacted about the murder? Why
does Utterson know Hyde’s address?
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5. Re-read lines 67-82. How does Stevenson use the setting and atmosphere
to mirror the battle between good and evil in this chapter?
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6. Re-read lines 83-90. Why does Soho appear to be an appropriate home

for Mr Hyde? How does this link to the context of Victorian morality?
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7. Re-read lines 108-130. How are Hyde’s rooms described? What evidence is
found there? Why is he now a hunted man?
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CHAPTER 4: THE CAREW MURDER CASE
Quotation
40
follows.
In this extract Utterson is driving towards Soho with a policeman to arrest Mr
Hyde.
It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the
season. A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but
the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled
vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson
5 beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for
here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would
be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange
conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite
broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in
10 between the swirling wreaths. The dismal quarter of Soho seen under
these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly
passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or
had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful re-invasion of
darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a
15 nightmare. The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest
dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was
conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's
officers, which may at times assail the most honest.
As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a
20 little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French
eating-house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny
salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many
women of different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a
morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again
25 upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his
blackguardly surroundings. This was the home of Henry Jekyll's
favourite; of a man who was heir to a quarter of a million sterling.
Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson use settings to create
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mystery and fear?
Write about:
o How Stevenson describes the setting in this extract
o How Stevenson uses settings to create mystery and fear in the novel as
a whole.
[30 marks]
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Chapter 5: The Incident of the Letter
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IT was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr.
Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried
down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a
garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory
5 or the dissecting-rooms. The doctor had bought the house from the
heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical
than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of
the garden. It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that
part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with
10 curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he
crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt
and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with
crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the
foggy cupola. At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered
15 with red baize; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the
doctor's cabinet. It was a large room, fitted round with glass presses,
furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and
looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron. A fire
burned in the grate; a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf, for even in
20 the houses the fog began to lie thickly; and there, close up to the warmth, sat
Dr. Jekyll, looking deadly sick. He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a
cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.
"And now," said Mr. Utterson, as soon as Poole had left them, "you have heard
the news?"
25 The doctor shuddered. "They were crying it in the square," he said.
"I heard them in my dining-room."
"One word," said the lawyer. "Carew was my client, but so are you, and I
want to know what I am doing. You have not been mad enough to hide this
fellow?"
30 "Utterson, I swear to God," cried the doctor, "I swear to God I will never set
eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this
world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not
know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never
more be heard of."
35 The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend's feverish manner. "You
seem pretty sure of him," said he; "and for your sake, I hope you may be right.
If it came to a trial, your name might appear."
42
"I am quite sure of him," replied Jekyll; "I have grounds for certainty that I
cannot share with any one. But there is one thing on which you may advise
40 me. I have—I have received a letter; and I am at a loss whether I should show
it to the police. I should like to leave it in your hands, Utterson; you would
judge wisely, I am sure; I have so great a trust in you."
"You fear, I suppose, that it might lead to his detection?" asked the lawyer.
"No," said the other. "I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I am
45 quite done with him. I was thinking of my own character, which this hateful
business has rather exposed."
Utterson ruminated a while; he was surprised at his friend's selfishness, and yet
relieved by it. "Well," said he, at last, "let me see the letter."
The letter was written in an odd, upright hand and signed "Edward Hyde":
50 and it signified, briefly enough, that the writer's benefactor, Dr. Jekyll, whom
he had long so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities, need labour
under no alarm for his safety, as he had means of escape on which he
placed a sure dependence. The lawyer liked this letter well enough; it put a
better colour on the intimacy than he had looked for; and he blamed himself
55 for some of his past suspicions.
"Have you the envelope?" he asked.
"I burned it," replied Jekyll, "before I thought what I was about. But it bore no
postmark. The note was handed in."
"Shall I keep this and sleep upon it?" asked Utterson.
60 "I wish you to judge for me entirely," was the reply. "I have lost confidence in
myself."
"Well, I shall consider," returned the lawyer. "And now one word more: it was
Hyde who dictated the terms in your will about that disappearance?"
The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness: he shut his mouth tight
65 and nodded.
"I knew it," said Utterson. "He meant to murder you. You have had a fine
escape."
"I have had what is far more to the purpose," returned the doctor solemnly: "I
have had a lesson—O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!" And he
70 covered his face for a moment with his hands.
On his way out, the lawyer stopped and had a word or two with Poole. "By
the by," said he, "there was a letter handed in to-day: what was the
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messenger like?" But Poole was positive nothing had come except by post;
"and only circulars by that," he added.
75 This news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed. Plainly the letter had
come by the laboratory door; possibly, indeed, it had been written in the
cabinet; and if that were so, it must be differently judged, and handled with
the more caution. The newsboys, as he went, were crying themselves hoarse
along the footways: "Special edition. Shocking murder of an M. P." That was
80 the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain
apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the
eddy of the scandal. It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make;
and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.
It was not to be had directly; but perhaps, he thought, it might be fished for.
85 Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head
clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance
from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned
in the foundations of his house. The fog still slept on the wing above the
drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the
90 muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life
was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.
But the room was gay with firelight. In the bottle the acids were long ago
resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, As the colour grows richer
in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside
95 vineyards was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.
Insensibly the lawyer melted. There was no man from whom he kept fewer
secrets than Mr. Guest; and he was not always sure that he kept as many as
he meant. Guest had often been on business to the doctor's; he knew Poole;
he could scarce have failed to hear of Mr. Hyde's familiarity about the house;
100 he might draw conclusions: was it not as well, then, that he should see a letter
which put that mystery to rights? and above all since Guest, being a great
student and critic of handwriting, would consider the step natural and
obliging? The clerk, besides, was a man of counsel; he would scarce read so
strange a document without dropping a remark; and by that remark Mr.
105 Utterson might shape his future course.
"This is a sad business about Sir Danvers," he said.
"Yes, sir, indeed. It has elicited a great deal of public feeling," returned Guest.
"The man, of course, was mad."
"I should like to hear your views on that," replied Utterson. "I have a document
110 here in his handwriting; it is between ourselves, for I scarce know what to do
44
about it; it is an ugly business at the best. But there it is; quite in your way a
murderer's autograph."
Guest's eyes brightened, and he sat down at once and studied it with
passion. "No, sir," he said: "not mad; but it is an odd hand."
115 "And by all accounts a very odd writer," added the lawyer.
Just then the servant entered with a note.
"Is that from Dr. Jekyll, sir?" inquired the clerk. "I thought I knew the writing.
Anything private, Mr. Utterson?"
"Only an invitation to dinner. Why? Do you want to see it?"
120 "One moment. I thank you, sir"; and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper
alongside and sedulously compared their contents. "Thank you, sir," he said at
last, returning both; "it's a very interesting autograph."
There was a pause, during which Mr. Utterson struggled with himself. "Why did
you compare them, Guest?" he inquired suddenly.
125 "Well, sir," returned the clerk, "there's a rather singular resemblance; the two
hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped."
"Rather quaint," said Utterson.
"It is, as you say, rather quaint," returned Guest.
"I wouldn't speak of this note, you know," said the master.
130 "No, sir," said the clerk. "I understand."
But no sooner was Mr. Utterson alone that night than he locked the note into
his safe, where it reposed from that time forward. "What!" he thought. "Henry
Jekyll forge for a murderer!" And his blood ran cold in his veins.
45
Word Definition
1. carried a) small domed roof
2. destination b) glass-fronted cupboards
3. cupola c) said
4. cabinet d) junk mail
5. glass presses e) escorted
6. cheval-glass f) in the dark
7. bind my honour g) own handwriting
8. signified h) deeper
9. colour on the intimacy i) whirlpool
10. qualm j) more acceptable friendship
11. circulars k) red gemstones
12. oration l) use
13. eddy m) led to
14. unsunned n) carefully
15. carbuncles o) private study
16. resolved p) matured
17. stained windows q) give you my word
18. elicited r) speech
19. sedulously s) suggestion
20. autograph t) mirror

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Utterson visits Henry Jekyll who, looking _____________, tells him that he’s
finished with_______________. He shows Utterson a letter written by Hyde which
says that Hyde has ___________ and won’t be caught. Hyde says that he is
___________ of Jekyll’s generosity. Utterson is pleased to read the letter, but
then learns from Poole the butler that no-one has delivered a _____________
to the house. He shows the letter to a ____________ expert, Mr Guest, who says
that the letter is written in Jekyll’s hand-writing, only the slope of the writing is
different. Utterson is horrified that Jekyll would _______________ a letter for a
murderer.
unworthy Hyde hand-writing escaped
letter forge deathly ill
1. Re-read lines 1-22. How does the description of Jekyll’s laboratory add to
the gothic atmosphere of Jekyll and Hyde?
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2. Re-read lines 18-29. How is Jekyll described? What clues are we given
about his state of mind?
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3. Re-read lines 30-46. What does Jekyll tell Utterson about Hyde? How does
this link to the Victorian context of morality and repression?
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4. Re-read lines 62-70. Why does Jekyll say he has had a ‘lesson’? Who
taught him the lesson and what has he learned?
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5. Look back at Chapter 3. How has Jekyll changed since then? Why has this
change occured?
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6. Re-read lines 106-133. What does Mr Guest tell Utterson about the letter?
Why does this worry Utterson?
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7. Why do you think Jekyll lied about the letter to Mr Utterson? What was his
motivation and how does this link to the Victorian context of morality and
reputation?
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CHAPTER 5: THE INCIDENT OF THE LETTER

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Read the following extract from Chapter 5 and then answer the question.
In this extract Utterson meets Jekyll to discuss the murder of Carew.
There, close up to the warmth, sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deadly sick. He
did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him
welcome in a changed voice.
"And now," said Mr. Utterson, as soon as Poole had left them, "you
5 have heard the news?"
The doctor shuddered. "They were crying it in the square," he said.
"I heard them in my dining-room."
"One word," said the lawyer. "Carew was my client, but so are you,
and I want to know what I am doing. You have not been mad
10 enough to hide this fellow?"
"Utterson, I swear to God," cried the doctor, "I swear to God I will never
set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with
him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my
help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite
15 safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of."
The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend's feverish manner.
"You seem pretty sure of him," said he; "and for your sake, I hope you
may be right. If it came to a trial, your name might appear."
20 "I am quite sure of him," replied Jekyll; "I have grounds for certainty that
I cannot share with any one. But there is one thing on which you may
advise me. I have—I have received a letter; and I am at a loss
whether I should show it to the police. I should like to leave it in your
hands, Utterson; you would judge wisely, I am sure; I have so great a
25 trust in you."
"You fear, I suppose, that it might lead to his detection?" asked the
lawyer.
"No," said the other. "I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I
am quite done with him. I was thinking of my own character, which
30 this hateful business has rather exposed."
Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present Victorian concerns
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about honour and secrecy?
Write about:
o How Stevenson presents honour and secrecy in this extract
o How Stevenson presents Victorian concerns about honour and secrecy
in the novel as a whole.
[30 marks]
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Chapter 6: Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon
0
TIME ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of Sir
Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde had disappeared out
of the ken of the police as though he had never existed. Much of his past was
unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty,
5 at once so callous and violent; of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the
hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present
whereabouts, not a whisper. From the time he had left the house in Soho on
the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time
drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to
10 grow more at quiet with himself. The death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of
thinking, more than paid for by the disappearance of Mr. Hyde. Now that
that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll. He
came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once
more their familiar guest and entertainer; and whilst he had always been
15 known for charities, he was now no less distinguished for religion. He was busy,
he was much in the open air, he did good; his face seemed to open and
brighten, as if with an inward consciousness of service; and for more than two
months, the doctor was at peace.
On the 8th of January Utterson had dined at the doctor's with a small party;
20 Lanyon had been there; and the face of the host had looked from one to the
other as in the old days when the trio were inseparable friends. On the 12th,
and again on the 14th, the door was shut against the lawyer. "The doctor was
confined to the house," Poole said, "and saw no one." On the 15th, he tried
again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two
25 months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh
upon his spirits. The fifth night he had in Guest to dine with him; and the sixth
he betook himself to Dr. Lanyon's.
There at least he was not denied admittance; but when he came in, he was
shocked at the change which had taken place in the doctor's appearance.
30 He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face. The rosy man had
grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and
yet it was not so much, these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested
the lawyer's notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed
to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind. It was unlikely that the
35 doctor should fear death; and yet that was what Utterson was tempted to
suspect. "Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and
that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear."
51
And yet when Utterson remarked on his ill-looks, it was with an air of greatness
that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.
40 "I have had a shock," he said, "and I shall never recover. It is a question of
weeks. Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it. I
sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away."
"Jekyll is ill, too," observed Utterson. "Have you seen him?"
But Lanyon's face changed, and he held up a trembling hand. "I wish to see
45 or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll," he said in a loud, unsteady voice. "I am quite
done with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one
whom I regard as dead."
"Tut-tut," said Mr. Utterson; and then after a considerable pause, "Can't I do
anything?" he inquired. "We are three very old friends, Lanyon; we shall not
50 live to make others."
"Nothing can be done," returned Lanyon; "ask himself."
"He will not see me," said the lawyer.
"I am not surprised at that," was the reply. "Some day, Utterson, after I am
dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot
55 tell you. And in the meantime, if you can sit and talk with me of other things,
for God's sake, stay and do so; but if you cannot keep clear of this accursed
topic, then, in God's name, go, for I cannot bear it."
As soon as he got home, Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll, complaining
of his exclusion from the house, and asking the cause of this unhappy break
60 with Lanyon; and the next day brought him a long answer, often very
pathetically worded, and sometimes darkly mysterious in drift. The quarrel
with Lanyon was incurable. "I do not blame our old friend," Jekyll wrote, "but I
share his view that we must never meet. I mean from henceforth to lead a life
of extreme seclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my
65 friendship, if my door is often shut even to you. You must suffer me to go my
own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I
cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I
could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so
unmanning; and you can do but one thing, Utterson, to lighten this destiny,
70 and that is to respect my silence." Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of
Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and
amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a
cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and
peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked. So great and
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75 unprepared a change pointed to madness; but in view of Lanyon's manner
and words, there must lie for it some deeper ground.
A week afterwards Dr. Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a
fortnight he was dead. The night after the funeral, at which he had been
sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting
80 there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an
envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend.
"PRIVATE: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE and in case of his predecease
to be destroyed unread," so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer
dreaded to behold the contents. "I have buried one friend to-day," he
85 thought: "what if this should cost me another?" And then he condemned the
fear as a disloyalty, and broke the seal. Within there was another enclosure,
likewise sealed, and marked upon the cover as "not to be opened till the
death or disappearance of Dr. Henry Jekyll." Utterson could not trust his eyes.
Yes, it was disappearance; here again, as in the mad will which he had long
90 ago restored to its author, here again were the idea of a disappearance and
the name of Henry Jekyll bracketed. But in the will, that idea had sprung from
the sinister suggestion of the man Hyde; it was set there with a purpose all too
plain and horrible. Written by the hand of Lanyon, what should it mean? A
great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at
95 once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to
his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost
corner of his private safe.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it; and it may be
doubted if, from that day forth, Utterson desired the society of his surviving
100 friend with the same eagerness. He thought of him kindly; but his thoughts
were disquieted and fearful. He went to call indeed; but he was perhaps
relieved to be denied admittance; perhaps, in his heart, he preferred to
speak with Poole upon the doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of
the open city, rather than to be admitted into that house of voluntary
105 bondage, and to sit and speak with its inscrutable recluse. Poole had,
indeed, no very pleasant news to communicate. The doctor, it appeared,
now more than ever confined himself to the cabinet over the laboratory,
where he would sometimes even sleep; he was out of spirits, he had grown
very silent, he did not read; it seemed as if he had something on his mind.
110 Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he
fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
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Word Definition
1. injury a) meaning
2. ken b) sad
3. legibly c) loss, disaster
4. allusion to d) strict duties
5. drift e) imprisonment
6. amities f) mention of
7. tenor g) written on the outside
8. melancholy h) friendships
9. superscribed i) repress, stop
10. disregard the prohibition j) anxious
11. stringent obligation k) clearly
12. mortify l) disobey the instruction
13. disquieted m) course
14. bondage n) knowledge
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Time passes but Hyde is not _______________. Jekyll starts seeing people, doing
______________ works and holds a dinner party which _____________ and
______________ attend.
A few days later, when Utterson calls, Jekyll won’t see ______________.
Utterson visits Lanyon and sees that Lanyon is sick and will ______________
soon. Lanyon won’t talk about Jekyll, who he regards as ______________.
Utterson writes to Jekyll to _____________ about not seeing him. Jekyll writes
back and tells him that he does not blame Lanyon for treating him that way
and that he has brought the _____________ upon himself.
A few weeks later Lanyon dies, giving Utterson an envelope. When he opens
it, he finds another envelope only to be opened ______________ Jekyll dies or
disappears. Utterson tries to see Jekyll again, but the butler _____________ to
let him in.
complain good punishment die
refuses found dead Utterson
anybody Lanyon after
1. Re-read lines 1-27. How does Jekyll live for the next two months? What
changes on the 12th? Why has this change occurred?
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3. Re-read lines 43-57. How does Lanyon react to Jekyll’s name? Why is this
surprising?
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4. Re-read lines 58-76. What does Jekyll say in his letter to Utterson? How does
this link to the Victorian context of secrecy and repression?
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5. Re-read lines 77-97. What happens to Dr Lanyon? What does he send to

Utterson and why is this mysterious?
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6. Re-read lines 98-111. What happens when Utterson tries to see Dr Jekyll?
How do Utterson’s feelings about this link to the Victorian context of the
respectable gentleman?
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CHAPTER 6: REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR LANYON
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follows.
In this extract Mr Utterson visits Dr Lanyon and is shocked at his ill appearance.
Lanyon had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face. The rosy man had
grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and yet
it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the
lawyer's notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to
5 testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind. It was unlikely that the doctor
should fear death; and yet that was what Utterson was tempted to suspect.
"Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days
are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear." And yet when
Utterson remarked on his ill-looks, it was with an air of greatness that Lanyon
10 declared himself a doomed man.
"I have had a shock," he said, "and I shall never recover. It is a question of
weeks. Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it. I
sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away."
"Jekyll is ill, too," observed Utterson. "Have you seen him?"
15 But Lanyon's face changed, and he held up a trembling hand. "I wish to see or
hear no more of Dr. Jekyll," he said in a loud, unsteady voice. "I am quite done
with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I
regard as dead."
"Tut-tut," said Mr. Utterson; and then after a considerable pause, "Can't I do
20 anything?" he inquired. "We are three very old friends, Lanyon; we shall not live
to make others."
"Nothing can be done," returned Lanyon; "ask himself."
"He will not see me," said the lawyer.
"I am not surprised at that," was the reply. "Some day, Utterson, after I am
25 dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot
tell you. And in the meantime, if you can sit and talk with me of other things,
for God's sake, stay and do so; but if you cannot keep clear of this accursed
topic, then, in God's name, go, for I cannot bear it."
Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson use the characters of
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Lanyon and Utterson to present ideas about Victorian morality?
Write about:
o How Stevenson uses Lanyon to present morality in this extract
o How Stevenson uses the characters of Lanyon and Utterson to present
ideas about Victorian morality in the novel as a whole.
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Chapter 7: Incident at the Window
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IT chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk with Mr.
Enfield, that their way lay once again through the by-street; and that when
they came in front of the door, both stopped to gaze on it.
"Well," said Enfield, "that story's at an end at least. We shall never see more of
5 Mr. Hyde."
"I hope not," said Utterson. "Did I ever tell you that I once saw him, and shared
your feeling of repulsion?"
"It was impossible to do the one without the other," returned Enfield. "And by
the way, what an ass you must have thought me, not to know that this was a
10 back way to Dr. Jekyll's! It was partly your own fault that I found it out, even
when I did."
"So you found it out, did you?" said Utterson. "But if that be so, we may step
into the court and take a look at the windows. To tell you the truth, I am
uneasy about poor Jekyll; and even outside, I feel as if the presence of a
15 friend might do him good."
The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight,
although the sky, high up overhead, was still bright with sunset. The middle
one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting close beside it,
taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner,
20 Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
"What! Jekyll!" he cried. "I trust you are better."
"I am very low, Utterson," replied the doctor, drearily, "very low. It will not last
long, thank God."
"You stay too much indoors," said the lawyer. "You should be out, whipping up
25 the circulation like Mr. Enfield and me. (This is my cousin—Mr. Enfield—Dr.
Jekyll.) Come, now; get your hat and take a quick turn with us."
"You are very good," sighed the other. "I should like to very much; but no, no,
no, it is quite impossible; I dare not. But indeed, Utterson, I am very glad to see
you; this is really a great pleasure; I would ask you and Mr. Enfield up, but the
30 place is really not fit."
"Why then," said the lawyer, good-naturedly, "the best thing we can do is to
stay down here and speak with you from where we are."
"That is just what I was about to venture to propose," returned the doctor with
a smile. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of
35 his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair,
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as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. They saw it but for a
glimpse, for the window was instantly thrust down; but that glimpse had been
sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word. In silence, too,
they traversed the by-street; and it was not until they had come into a
40 neighbouring thoroughfare, where even upon a Sunday there were still some
stirrings of life, that Mr. Utterson at last turned and looked at his companion.
They were both pale; and there was an answering horror in their eyes.
"God forgive us, God forgive us," said Mr. Utterson.
But Mr. Enfield only nodded his head very seriously and walked on once more
45 in silence.
Word Definition
1. repulsion a) having no limits
2. premature b) take the place of
c) very unhappy or unable to be

3. infinite
comforted
4. mien d) disgust
5. disconsolate e) the most
6. venture f) travel through
7. succeeded g) early
8. abject h) street
9. sufficient i) enough
j) a person’s appearance showing

10. traversed
their personality or mood
11. thoroughfare k) dare to say
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Utterson and Enfield pass by the door which Enfield saw Hyde
___________________ after he trampled the girl. Enfield has now worked out
that it is the door to the laboratory that connects to ______________ house.
Enfield says that they will never ______________ Hyde again. They look up and
see Jekyll at the window looking very _________________. They ask him to
come out for a ________________ with them but he says he can’t. Then a look
of _________________ seizes him and he disappears. The two men walk on in
__________________.
depressed silence walk Jekyll’s

terror enter see
1. Re-read lines 1-15. What are Utterson and Enfield talking about as they
walk? What does Utterson mean when he says he shares Enfield’s feeling
of ‘revulsion’?
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2. Re-read lines 16-20. How is Jekyll described when Utterson and Enfield see
him? Choose one word or phrase and explore what it suggest about
Jekyll’s state of mind.
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3. Re-read lines 21-32. How does Jekyll react to their conversation and why?
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4. Re-read lines 33-38. What happens to Jekyll all of a sudden? How does the
structural device of the window link to the Victorian context of secrecy?
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5. Re-read lines 38-45. How do Utterson and Enfield react to what they see?
Why do you think they react in this way?
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between them and the way the men react to what they see reveal about
the role of the Victorian gentleman?
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CHAPTER 7: INCIDENT OF THE WINDOW
Quotation
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follows.
In this extract Utterson and Enfield see Jekyll at his window, after he has been
shut up with an illness.
The middle one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting
close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like
some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll. "What! Jekyll!" he
cried. "I trust you are better."
5 "I am very low, Utterson," replied the doctor, drearily, "very low. It will
not last long, thank God."
"You stay too much indoors," said the lawyer. "You should be out,
whipping up the circulation like Mr. Enfield and me. (This is my
cousin—Mr. Enfield—Dr. Jekyll.) Come, now; get your hat and take a
10 quick turn with us."
"You are very good," sighed the other. "I should like to very much; but
no, no, no, it is quite impossible; I dare not. But indeed, Utterson, I am
very glad to see you; this is really a great pleasure; I would ask you
and Mr. Enfield up, but the place is really not fit."
15 "Why then," said the lawyer, good-naturedly, "the best thing we can
do is to stay down here and speak with you from where we are."
"That is just what I was about to venture to propose," returned the
doctor with a smile. But the words were hardly uttered, before the
smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of
20 such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two
gentlemen below. They saw it but for a glimpse, for the window was
instantly thrust down; but that glimpse had been sufficient, and they
turned and left the court without a word.
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troubled character?
Write about:
o How Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll in this extract
o How Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll as a troubled character in the novel
as a whole.
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Chapter 8: The Last Night
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MR Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was
surprised to receive a visit from Poole.
"Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?" he cried; and then taking a second
look at him, "What ails you?" he added; is the doctor ill?"
5 "Mr. Utterson," said the man, "there is something wrong."
"Take a seat, and here is a glass of wine for you," said the lawyer. "Now, take
your time, and tell me plainly what you want."
"You know the doctor's ways, sir," replied Poole, "and how he shuts himself up.
Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir--I wish I may die if I
10 like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid."
"Now, my good man," said the lawyer, "be explicit. What are you afraid of?"
"I've been afraid for about a week," returned Poole, doggedly disregarding
the question, "and I can bear it no more."
The man's appearance amply bore out his words; his manner was altered for
15 the worse; and except for the moment when he had first announced his
terror, he had not once looked the lawyer in the face. Even now, he sat with
the glass of wine untasted on his knee, and his eyes directed to a corner of
the floor. "I can bear it no more,"he repeated.
"Come," said the lawyer, "I see you have some good reason, Poole; I see
20 there is something seriously amiss. Try to tell me what it is."
"I think there's been foul play," said Poole, hoarsely.
"Foul play!" cried the lawyer, a good deal frightened and rather inclined to
be irritated in consequence. "What foul play! What does the man mean?"
"I daren't say, sir," was the answer; but will you come along with me and see
25 for yourself?"
Mr. Utterson's only answer was to rise and get his hat and greatcoat; but he
observed with wonder the greatness of the relief that appeared upon the
butler's face, and perhaps with no less, that the wine was still untasted when
he set it down to follow.
30 It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on
her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most
diaphanous and lawny texture. The wind made talking difficult, and flecked
the blood into the face. It seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare
of passengers, besides; for Mr. Utterson thought he had never seen that part
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35 of London so deserted. He could have wished it otherwise; never in his life
had he been conscious of so sharp a wish to see and touch his fellow-
creatures; for struggle as he might, there was borne in upon his mind a
crushing anticipation of calamity. The square, when they got there, was full of
wind and dust, and the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves
40 along the railing. Poole, who had kept all the way a pace or two ahead, now
pulled up in the middle of the pavement, and in spite of the biting weather,
took off his hat and mopped his brow with a red pocket-handkerchief. But for
all the hurry of his coming, these were not the dews of exertion that he wiped
away, but the moisture of some strangling anguish; for his face was white and
45 his voice, when he spoke, harsh and broken.
"Well, sir," he said, "here we are, and God grant there be nothing wrong."
"Amen, Poole," said the lawyer.
Thereupon the servant knocked in a very guarded manner; the door was
opened on the chain; and a voice asked from within, "Is that you, Poole?"
50 "It's all right," said Poole. "Open the door."
The hall, when they entered it, was brightly lighted up; the fire was built
high; and about the hearth the whole of the servants, men and women,
stood huddled together like a flock of sheep. At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the
housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering; and the cook, crying out "Bless
55 God! it's Mr. Utterson," ran forward as if to take him in her arms.
"What, what? Are you all here?" said the lawyer peevishly. "Very irregular,
very unseemly; your master would be far from pleased."
"They're all afraid," said Poole.
Blank silence followed, no one protesting; only the maid lifted her voice
60 and now wept loudly.
"Hold your tongue!" Poole said to her, with a ferocity of accent that testified
to his own jangled nerves; and indeed, when the girl had so suddenly raised
the note of her lamentation, they had all started and turned towards the
inner door with faces of dreadful expectation. "And now," continued the
65 butler, addressing the knife-boy, "reach me a candle, and we'll get this
through hands at once." And then he begged Mr. Utterson to follow him, and
led the way to the back garden.
"Now, sir," said he, "you come as gently as you can. I want you to hear, and
I don't want you to be heard. And see here, sir, if by any chance he was to
70 ask you in, don't go."
Mr. Utterson's nerves, at this unlooked-for termination, gave a jerk that
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nearly threw him from his balance; but he recollected his courage and
followed the butler into the laboratory building through the surgical theatre,
with its lumber of crates and bottles, to the foot of the stair. Here Poole
75 motioned him to stand on one side and listen; while he himself, setting down
the candle and making a great and obvious call on his resolution, mounted
the steps and knocked with a somewhat uncertain hand on the red baize of
the cabinet door.
"Mr. Utterson, sir, asking to see you," he called; and even as he did so, once
80 more violently signed to the lawyer to give ear.
A voice answered from within: "Tell him I cannot see anyone," it said
complainingly.
"Thank you, sir," said Poole, with a note of something like triumph in his
voice; and taking up his candle, he led Mr. Utterson back across the yard
85 and into the great kitchen, where the fire was out and the beetles were
leaping on the floor.
"Sir," he said, looking Mr. Utterson in the eyes, "Was that my master's voice?"
"It seems much changed," replied the lawyer, very pale, but giving look for
look.
90 "Changed? Well, yes, I think so," said the butler. "Have I been twenty years
in this man's house, to be deceived about his voice? No, sir; master's made
away with; he was made away with eight days ago, when we heard him cry
out upon the name of God; and who's in there instead of him, and why it
stays there, is a thing that cries to Heaven, Mr. Utterson!"
95 "This is a very strange tale, Poole; this is rather a wild tale my man," said Mr.
Utterson, biting his finger. "Suppose it were as you suppose, supposing Dr.
Jekyll to have been--well, murdered what could induce the murderer to stay?
That won't hold water; it doesn't commend itself to reason."
"Well, Mr. Utterson, you are a hard man to satisfy, but I'll do it yet," said
100 Poole. "All this last week (you must know) him, or it, whatever it is that lives in
that cabinet, has been crying night and day for some sort of medicine and
cannot get it to his mind. It was sometimes his way--the master's, that is--to
write his orders on a sheet of paper and throw it on the stair. We've had
nothing else this week back; nothing but papers, and a closed door, and the
105 very meals left there to be smuggled in when nobody was looking. Well, sir,
every day, ay, and twice and thrice in the same day, there have been orders
and complaints, and I have been sent flying to all the wholesale chemists in
town. Every time I brought the stuff back, there would be another paper
telling me to return it, because it was not pure, and another order to a
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110 different firm. This drug is wanted bitter bad, sir, whatever for."
"Have you any of these papers?" asked Mr. Utterson.
Poole felt in his pocket and handed out a crumpled note, which the
lawyer, bending nearer to the candle, carefully examined. Its contents ran
thus: "Dr. Jekyll presents his compliments to Messrs. Maw. He assures them that
115 their last sample is impure and quite useless for his present purpose. In the
year 18--, Dr. J. purchased a somewhat large quantity from Messrs. M. He now
begs them to search with most sedulous care,and should any of the same
quality be left, forward it to him at once. Expense is no consideration. The
importance of this to Dr. J. can hardly be exaggerated." So far the letter had
120 run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the
writer's emotion had broken loose. "For God's sake," he added, "find me some
of the old."
"This is a strange note," said Mr. Utterson; and then sharply, "How do you
come to have it open?"
125 "The man at Maw's was main angry, sir, and he threw it back to me like so
much dirt," returned Poole.
"This is unquestionably the doctor's hand, do you know?" resumed the
lawyer.
"I thought it looked like it," said the servant rather sulkily; and then, with
130 another voice, "But what matters hand of write?" he said. "I've seen him!"
"Seen him?" repeated Mr. Utterson. "Well?"
"That's it!" said Poole. "It was this way. I came suddenly into the theater from
the garden. It seems he had slipped out to look for this drug or whatever it is;
for the cabinet door was open, and there he was at the far end of the room
135 digging among the crates. He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry,
and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw
him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master,
why had he a mask upon his face? If it was my master, why did he cry out like
a rat, and run from me? I have served him long enough. And then..." The man
140 paused and passed his hand over his face.
"These are all very strange circumstances," said Mr. Utterson, "but I think I
begin to see daylight. Your master, Poole, is plainly seized with one of those
maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer; hence, for aught I know,
the alteration of his voice; hence the mask and the avoidance of his friends;
145 hence his eagerness to find this drug, by means of which the poor soul retains
some hope of ultimate recovery--God grant that he be not deceived! There
is my explanation; it is sad enough, Poole, ay, and appalling to consider; but
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it is plain and natural, hangs well together, and delivers us from all exorbitant
alarms."
150 "Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, "that thing was not
my master, and there's the truth. My master"--here he looked round him and
began to whisper--"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a
dwarf." Utterson attempted to protest. "O, sir," cried Poole, "do you think I do
not know my master after twenty years? Do you think I do not know where his
155 head comes to in the cabinet door, where I saw him every morning of my
life? No, sir, that thing in the mask was never Dr. Jekyll--God knows what it
was, but it was never Dr. Jekyll; and it is the belief of my heart that there was
murder done."
"Poole," replied the lawyer, "if you say that, it will become my duty to make
160 certain. Much as I desire to spare your master's feelings, much as I am puzzled
by this note which seems to prove him to be still alive, I shall consider it my
duty to break in that door."
"Ah, Mr. Utterson, that's talking!" cried the butler.
"And now comes the second question," resumed Utterson: "Who is going to
165 do it?"
"Why, you and me, sir," was the undaunted reply.
"That's very well said," returned the lawyer; "and whatever comes of it, I
shall make it my business to see you are no loser."
"There is an axe in the theatre," continued Poole; "and you might take the
170 kitchen poker for yourself."
The lawyer took that rude but weighty instrument into his hand, and
balanced it. "Do you know, Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are
about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"
"You may say so, sir, indeed," returned the butler.
175 "It is well, then that we should be frank," said the other. "We both think more
than we have said; let us make a clean breast. This masked figure that you
saw, did you recognise it?"
"Well, sir, it went so quick, and the creature was so doubled up, that I could
hardly swear to that," was the answer. "But if you mean, was it Mr. Hyde?--
180 why, yes, I think it was!" You see, it was much of the same bigness; and it had
the same quick, light way with it; and then who else could have got in by the
laboratory door? You have not forgot, sir, that at the time of the murder he
had still the key with him? But that's not all. I don't know, Mr. Utterson, if you
ever met this Mr. Hyde?"
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185 "Yes," said the lawyer, "I once spoke with him."
"Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something
queer about that gentleman--something that gave a man a turn--I don't
know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of
cold and thin."
190 "I own I felt something of what you describe," said Mr. Utterson.
"Quite so, sir," returned Poole. "Well, when that masked thing like a monkey
jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet, it went
down my spine like ice. O, I know it's not evidence, Mr. Utterson; I'm book-
learned enough for that; but a man has his feelings, and I give you my bible-
195 word it was Mr. Hyde!"
"Ay, ay," said the lawyer. "My fears incline to the same point. Evil, I fear,
founded--evil was sure to come--of that connection. Ay truly, I believe you; I
believe poor Harry is killed; and I believe his murderer (for what purpose, God
alone can tell) is still lurking in his victim's room. Well, let our name be
200 vengeance. Call Bradshaw."
The footman came at the summons, very white and nervous.
"Put yourself together, Bradshaw," said the lawyer. "This suspense, I know, is
telling upon all of you; but it is now our intention to make an end of it. Poole,
here, and I are going to force our way into the cabinet. If all is well, my
205 shoulders are broad enough to bear the blame. Meanwhile, lest anything
should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you
and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take
your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your
stations."
210 As Bradshaw left, the lawyer looked at his watch. "And now, Poole, let us
get to ours," he said; and taking the poker under his arm, led the way into the
yard. The scud had banked over the moon, and it was now quite dark. The
wind, which only broke in puffs and draughts into that deep well of building,
tossed the light of the candle to and fro about their steps, until they came
215 into the shelter of the theatre, where they sat down silently to wait. London
hummed solemnly all around; but nearer at hand, the stillness was only
broken by the sounds of a footfall moving to and fro along the cabinet floor.
"So it will walk all day, sir," whispered Poole; "ay, and the better part of the
night. Only when a new sample comes from the chemist, there's a bit of a
220 break. Ah, it's an ill conscience that's such an enemy to rest! Ah, sir, there's
blood foully shed in every step of it! But hark again, a little closer--put your
heart in your ears, Mr. Utterson, and tell me, is that the doctor's foot?"
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The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so
slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll.
225 Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.
Poole nodded. "Once," he said. "Once I heard it weeping!"
"Weeping? how that?" said the lawyer, conscious of a sudden chill of
horror.
"Weeping like a woman or a lost soul," said the butler. "I came away with
230 that upon my heart, that I could have wept too."
But now the ten minutes drew to an end. Poole disinterred the axe from
under a stack of packing straw; the candle was set upon the nearest table to
light them to the attack; and they drew near with bated breath to where
that patient foot was still going up and down, up and down, in the quiet of
235 the night. "Jekyll," cried Utterson, with a loud voice, "I demand to see you." He
paused a moment, but there came no reply. "I give you fair warning, our
suspicions are aroused, and I must and shall see you," he resumed; "if not by
fair means, then by foul--if not of your consent, then by brute force!"
"Utterson," said the voice, "for God's sake, have mercy!"
240 "Ah, that's not Jekyll's voice--it's Hyde's!" cried Utterson. "Down with the
door, Poole!"
Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and
the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges. A dismal screech, as
of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet. Up went the axe again, and
245 again the panels crashed and the frame bounded; four times the blow fell;
but the wood was tough and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and
it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst and the wreck of the door fell
inwards on the carpet.
The besiegers, appalled by their own riot and the stillness that had
250 succeeded, stood back a little and peered in. There lay the cabinet before
their eyes in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and chattering on the
hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly
set forth on the business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out for tea;
the quietest room, you would have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of
255 chemicals, the most commonplace that night in London.
Right in the middle there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still
twitching. They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on its back and beheld the
face of Edward Hyde. He was dressed in clothes far to large for him, clothes
of the doctor's bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of
260 life, but life was quite gone: and by the crushed phial in the hand and the
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strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was
looking on the body of a self-destroyer.
"We have come too late," he said sternly, "whether to save or punish. Hyde
is gone to his account; and it only remains for us to find the body of your
265 master."
The far greater proportion of the building was occupied by the theatre,
which filled almost the whole ground storey and was lighted from above, and
by the cabinet, which formed an upper story at one end and looked upon
the court. A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with
270 this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs. There
were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar. All these they now
thorougly examined. Each closet needed but a glance, for all were empty,
and all, by the dust that fell from their doors, had stood long unopened. The
cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times of
275 the surgeon who was Jekyll's predecessor; but even as they opened the door
they were advertised of the uselessness of further search, by the fall of a
perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance. No
where was there any trace of Henry Jekyll dead or alive.
Poole stamped on the flags of the corridor. "He must be buried here," he
280 said, hearkening to the sound.
"Or he may have fled," said Utterson, and he turned to examine the door in
the by-street. It was locked; and lying near by on the flags, they found the
key, already stained with rust.
"This does not look like use," observed the lawyer.
285 "Use!" echoed Poole. "Do you not see, sir, it is broken? much as if a man
had stamped on it."
"Ay," continued Utterson, "and the fractures, too, are rusty." The two men
looked at each other with a scare. "This is beyond me, Poole," said the lawyer.
"Let us go back to the cabinet."
290 They mounted the stair in silence, and still with an occasional awestruck
glance at the dead body, proceeded more thoroughly to examine the
contents of the cabinet. At one table, there were traces of chemical work,
various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glass saucers, as
though for an experiment in which the unhappy man had been prevented.
295 "That is the same drug that I was always bringing him," said Poole; and even
as he spoke, the kettle with a startling noise boiled over.
This brought them to the fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up,
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and the tea things stood ready to the sitter's elbow, the very sugar in the cup.
There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and
300 Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had
several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with
startling blasphemies.
Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to
the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror.
305 But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the
roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the
presses, and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in.
"This glass has seen some strange things, sir," whispered Poole.
"And surely none stranger than itself," echoed the lawyer in the same tones.
310 "For what did Jekyll"--he caught himself up at the word with a start, and then
conquering the weakness--"what could Jekyll want with it?" he said.
"You may say that!" said Poole.
Next they turned to the business table. On the desk, among the neat array
of papers, a large envelope was uppermost, and bore, in the doctor's hand,
315 the name of Mr. Utterson. The lawyer unsealed it, and several enclosures fell
to the floor. The first was a will, drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one
which he had returned six months before, to serve as a testament in case of
death and as a deed of gift in case of disappearance; but in place of the
name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement read the
320 name of Gabriel John Utterson. He looked at Poole, and then back at the
paper, and last of all at the dead malefactor stretched upon the carpet.
"My head goes round," he said. "He has been all these days in possession;
he had no cause to like me; he must have raged to see himself displaced;
and he has not destroyed this document."
325 He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the doctor's hand and
dated at the top. "O Poole!" the lawyer cried, "he was alive and here this day.
He cannot have been disposed of in so short a space; he must be still alive,
he must have fled! And then, why fled? and how? and in that case, can we
venture to declare this suicide? O, we must be careful. I foresee that we may
330 yet involve your master in some dire catastrophe."
"Why don't you read it, sir?" asked Poole.
"Because I fear," replied the lawyer solemnly. "God grant I have no cause
for it!" And with that he brought the paper to his eyes and read as follows:
"My dear Utterson,--When this shall fall into your hands, I shall have
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335 disappeared, under what circumstances I have not the penetration to
foresee, but my instinct and all the circumstances of my nameless situation
tell me that the end is sure and must be early. Go then, and first read the
narrative which Lanyon warned me he was to place in your hands; and if you
care to hear more, turn to the confession of
340 "Your unworthy and unhappy friend,
"HENRY JEKYLL."
"There was a third enclosure?" asked Utterson.
"Here, sir," said Poole, and gave into his hands a considerable packet
sealed in several places.
345 The lawyer put it in his pocket. "I would say nothing of this paper. If your
master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit. It is now ten; I must
go home and read these documents in quiet; but I shall be back before
midnight, when we shall send for the police."
They went out, locking the door of the theatre behind them; and Utterson,
350 once more leaving the servants gathered about the fire in the hall, trudged
back to his office to read the two narratives in which this mystery was now to
be explained.
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Word Definition
1. doggedly a) unsuitable
2. amiss b) can’t understand how it will happen
3. guarded c) weeping
4. unseemly d) determinedly
5. lamentation e) religious
6. resolution f) wrong-doer
7. sedulous g) severely twisted
8. theatre h) pale and blotchy
9. mottled pallor i) wrong
10. malefactor j) clouds moving rapidly across the sky
11. scud k) laboratory
12. disinterred l) floor slates
13. glazed presses m) determination
14. Sorely contorted n) Rubbish, junk
15. phial o) cautious
16. lumber p) glass-fronted cupboards
17. flags q) extreme
18. pious r) unique so it can’t be described
19. Penetration to foresee s) Dug out
20. Nameless situation t) Small glass bottle
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One evening Utterson is visited by Poole who tells Utterson that he thinks there
has been some ‘______________’ regarding Dr Jekyll. Utterson goes with Poole
to Jekyll’s house and finds all the servants cowering in the __________________.
Poole and Utterson go quietly through the laboratory to the ‘cabinet’ or small
room, where they knock. A ____________ voice says that he cannot see
anyone. Poole then tells him that he thinks Jekyll was “_____________________”
eight days before, and that the strange voice has spent much time
demanding drugs, the orders for which are written on pieces of paper and
pushed under the door. Utterson reads one of these notes, and thinks that
Jekyll is ______________. Poole then tells him that he has caught a glimpse of
the ‘thing’ and saw it was much _______________ than Jekyll.
Utterson decides to break down the door and send two servants around the
back to stop Hyde escaping. Utterson says to the creature in the laboratory
that he will break down the door if Jekyll doesn’t open it, to which a strange
voice says “_______________________!”
When they break down the door, they find Hyde is ___________________ in
Jekyll’s large clothes and has just _____________________ himself by drinking
poison. They find no sign of _____________________. On the business table, they
find a will the same as the one that Jekyll wrote for Hyde except that
_______________ name has replaced Hyde’s, and they find a note that asks
Utterson to read __________________ account and another letter, which is the
“__________________” of Henry Jekyll.
dressed killed Lanyon’s have mercy

foul play Jekyll ill strange hallway
Utterson’s smaller made away with confession
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1. Re-read lines 1-29. Who visits Utterson at the beginning of the chapter?
Why is he worried about Jekyll and what does he think has happened?
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2. Re-read lines 30-47. How does Stevenson use pathetic fallacy here to
heighten the tension of the chapter? Give an example.
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3. Re-read lines 48-70. How are Jekyll’s servants behaving? Why? How does
this heighten the tension of the chapter?
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4. Re-read lines 71-98. What does Poole think has happened to Jekyll and
why?
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5. Re-read lines 99-158. What strange happenings does Poole describe going
on in Jekyll’s closet? What is strange about the letter he receives? What is
actually happening inside the closet?
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6. Re-read lines 159-200. Who is actually hiding in the closet? How does Poole
know this?
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7. Re-read ll. 210-230. What do Utterson and Poole hear coming from the
closet? What does this reveal about Jekyll/Hyde’s state of mind?
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8. Re-read ll. 249-289. What do Utterson and Poole find inside the closet?
Give as much detail as you can.
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9. Re-read ll. 290-312. What evidence do Utterson and Poole find of the evil
goings on in Jekyll’s closet.
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10. Re-read ll. 313-352. What documents do Utterson and Poole find on Jekyll’s
desk? Why are they so astounded to find these documents? What do they
suggest about the way Jekyll spent the last days of his life?
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11. Why do you think Stevenson ends Jekyll’s life in this way? What does he
want the reader to think about Jekyll’s life and behaviour in the run up to
his death?
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12. This is the last part of the main narrative. The final two chapters of the text
are letters by Lanyon and Jekyll. Why do you think Stevenson chooses to
structure his novel in this way?
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CHAPTER 8: THE LAST NIGHT
Quotation
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follows.
In this extract Mr Utterson and Poole break down the door of Jekyll’s cabinet.
Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building,
and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges. A
dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet. Up
went the axe again, and again the panels crashed and the frame
5 bounded; four times the blow fell; but the wood was tough and the
fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth,
that the lock burst and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the
carpet.
10 The besiegers, appalled by their own riot and the stillness that had
succeeded, stood back a little and peered in. There lay the cabinet
before their eyes in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and
chattering on the hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or
two open, papers neatly set forth on the business table, and nearer
15 the fire, the things laid out for tea; the quietest room, you would
have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most
commonplace that night in London.
Right in the middle there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and
still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on its back and
20 beheld the face of Edward Hyde. He was dressed in clothes far to
large for him, clothes of the doctor's bigness; the cords of his face still
moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone: and by the
crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung
upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a
25 self-destroyer.
"We have come too late," he said sternly, "whether to save or punish.
Hyde is gone to his account; and it only remains for us to find the
body of your master."
Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson create a sense of mystery
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and tension?
Write about:
o How Stevenson creates a sense of mystery and tension in this extract
o How Stevenson creates a sense of mystery and tension in the novel as
a whole.
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Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon’s Narrative
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On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening
delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and
old school companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good deal surprised by this; for
we were by no means in the habit of correspondence; I had seen the man,
5 dined with him, indeed, the night before; and I could imagine nothing in our
intercourse that should justify formality of registration. The contents increased
my wonder; for this is how the letter ran:
"10th December, 18--.
"Dear Lanyon,--You are one of my oldest friends; and although we may
10 have differed at times on scientific questions, I cannot remember, at least on
my side, any break in our affection. There was never a day when, if you had
said to me, `Jekyll, my life, my honour, my reason, depend upon you,' I would
not have sacrificed my left hand to help you. Lanyon my life, my honour, my
reason, are all at your mercy; if you fail me to-night, I am lost. You might
15 suppose, after this preface, that I am going to ask you for something
dishonourable to grant. Judge for yourself.
"I want you to postpone all other engagements for to-night-- ay, even if
you were summoned to the bedside of an emperor; to take a cab, unless
your carriage should be actually at the door; and with this letter in your hand
20 for consultation, to drive straight to my house. Poole, my butler, has his orders;
you will find him waiting your arrival with a locksmith. The door of my cabinet
is then to be forced: and you are to go in alone; to open the glazed press
(letter E) on the left hand, breaking the lock if it be shut; and to draw out, with
all its contents as they stand, the fourth drawer from the top or (which is the
25 same thing) the third from the bottom. In my extreme distress of mind, I have
a morbid fear of misdirecting you; but even if I am in error, you may know the
right drawer by its contents: some powders, a phial and a paper book. This
drawer I beg of you to carry back with you to Cavendish Square exactly as it
stands.
30 "That is the first part of the service: now for the second. You should be back,
if you set out at once on the receipt of this, long before midnight; but I will
leave you that amount of margin, not only in the fear of one of those
obstacles that can neither be prevented nor foreseen, but because an hour
when your servants are in bed is to be preferred for what will then remain to
35 do. At midnight, then, I have to ask you to be alone in your consulting room,
to admit with your own hand into the house a man who will present himself in
my name, and to place in his hands the drawer that you will have brought
with you from my cabinet. Then you will have played your part and earned
my gratitude completely. Five minutes afterwards, if you insist upon an
40 explanation, you will have understood that these arrangements are of
capital importance; and that by the neglect of one of them, fantastic as
they must appear, you might have charged your conscience with my death
or the shipwreck of my reason.
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"Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks
45 and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility. Think of me
at this hour, in a strange place, labouring under a blackness of distress that no
fancy can exaggerate, and yet well aware that, if you will but punctually
serve me, my troubles will roll away like a story that is told. Serve me, my dear
Lanyon and save
50 "Your friend, "H.J.
"P.S.--I had already sealed this up when a fresh terror struck upon my soul. It
is possible that the post-office may fail me, and this letter not come into your
hands until to-morrow morning. In that case, dear Lanyon, do my errand
when it shall be most convenient for you in the course of the day; and once
55 more expect my messenger at midnight. It may then already be too late;
and if that night passes without event, you will know that you have seen the
last of Henry Jekyll."
Upon the reading of this letter, I made sure my colleague was insane; but
till that was proved beyond the possibility of doubt, I felt bound to do as he
60 requested. The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to
judge of its importance; and an appeal so worded could not be set aside
without a grave responsibility. I rose accordingly from table, got into a
hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house. The butler was awaiting my
arrival; he had received by the same post as mine a registered letter of
65 instruction, and had sent at once for a locksmith and a carpenter. The
tradesmen came while we were yet speaking; and we moved in a body to
old Dr. Denman's surgical theatre, from which (as you are doubtless aware)
Jekyll's private cabinet is most conveniently entered. The door was very
strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great
70 trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the
locksmith was near despair. But this last was a handy fellow, and after two
hour's work, the door stood open. The press marked E was unlocked; and I
took out the drawer, had it filled up with straw and tied in a sheet, and
returned with it to Cavendish Square.
75 Here I proceeded to examine its contents. The powders were neatly
enough made up, but not with the nicety of the dispensing chemist; so that it
was plain they were of Jekyll's private manufacture: and when I opened one
of the wrappers I found what seemed to me a simple crystalline salt of a
white colour. The phial, to which I next turned my attention, might have been
80 about half full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of
smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether. At
the other ingredients I could make no guess. The book was an ordinary
version book and contained little but a series of dates. These covered a
period of many years, but I observed that the entries ceased nearly a year
85 ago and quite abruptly. Here and there a brief remark was appended to a
date, usually no more than a single word: "double" occurring perhaps six
times in a total of several hundred entries; and once very early in the list and
followed by several marks of exclamation, "total failure!!!" All this, though it
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whetted my curiosity, told me little that was definite. Here were a phial of
90 some salt, and the record of a series of experiments that had led (like too
many of Jekyll's investigations) to no end of practical usefulness. How could
the presence of these articles in my house affect either the honour, the
sanity, or the life of my flighty colleague? If his messenger could go to one
place, why could he not go to another? And even granting some
95 impediment, why was this gentleman to be received by me in secret? The
more I reflected the more convinced I grew that I was dealing with a case of
cerebral disease; and though I dismissed my servants to bed, I loaded an old
revolver, that I might be found in some posture of self-defence.
Twelve o'clock had scarce rung out over London, ere the knocker sounded
100 very gently on the door. I went myself at the summons, and found a small
man crouching against the pillars of the portico.
"Are you come from Dr. Jekyll?" I asked.
He told me "yes" by a constrained gesture; and when I had bidden him
enter, he did not obey me without a searching backward glance into the
105 darkness of the square. There was a policeman not far off, advancing with his
bull's eye open; and at the sight, I thought my visitor started and made
greater haste.
These particulars struck me, I confess, disagreeably; and as I followed him
into the bright light of the consulting room, I kept my hand ready on my
110 weapon. Here, at last, I had a chance of clearly seeing him. I had never set
eyes on him before, so much was certain. He was small, as I have said; I was
struck besides with the shocking expression of his face, with his remarkable
combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of
constitution, and--last but not least--with the odd, subjective disturbance
115 caused by his neighbourhood. This bore some resemblance to incipient
rigour, and was accompanied by a marked sinking of the pulse. At the time, I
set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste, and merely wondered at
the acuteness of the symptoms; but I have since had reason to believe the
cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler
120 hinge than the principle of hatred.
This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in
me what I can only, describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion
that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to
say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large
125 for him in every measurement--the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up
to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches,
and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. Strange to relate, this
ludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter. Rather, as there
was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the
130 creature that now faced me--something seizing, surprising and revolting-- this
fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to reinforce it; so that to my
interest in the man's nature and character, there was added a curiosity as to
his origin, his life, his fortune and status in the world.
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These observations, though they have taken so great a space to be set
135 down in, were yet the work of a few seconds. My visitor was, indeed, on fire
with sombre excitement.
"Have you got it?" he cried. "Have you got it?" And so lively was his
impatience that he even laid his hand upon my arm and sought to shake
me.
140 I put him back, conscious at his touch of a certain icy pang along my
blood. "Come, sir," said I. "You forget that I have not yet the pleasure of your
acquaintance. Be seated, if you please." And I showed him an example, and
sat down myself in my customary seat and with as fair an imitation of my
ordinary manner to a patient, as the lateness of the hour, the nature of my
145 preoccupations, and the horror I had of my visitor, would suffer me to muster.
"I beg your pardon, Dr. Lanyon," he replied civilly enough. "What you say is
very well founded; and my impatience has shown its heels to my politeness. I
come here at the instance of your colleague, Dr. Henry Jekyll, on a piece of
business of some moment; and I understood ..." He paused and put his hand
150 to his throat, and I could see, in spite of his collected manner, that he was
wrestling against the approaches of the hysteria--"I understood, a drawer ..."
But here I took pity on my visitor's suspense, and some perhaps on my own
growing curiosity.
"There it is, sir," said I, pointing to the drawer, where it lay on the floor behind
155 a table and still covered with the sheet.
He sprang to it, and then paused, and laid his hand upon his heart: I could
hear his teeth grate with the convulsive action of his jaws; and his face was so
ghastly to see that I grew alarmed both for his life and reason.
"Compose yourself," said I.
160 He turned a dreadful smile to me, and as if with the decision of despair,
plucked away the sheet. At sight of the contents, he uttered one loud sob of
such immense relief that I sat petrified. And the next moment, in a voice that
was already fairly well under control, "Have you a graduated glass?" he
asked.
165 I rose from my place with something of an effort and gave him what he
asked.
He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red
tincture and added one of the powders. The mixture, which was at first of a
reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour,
170 to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour. Suddenly and
at the same moment, the ebullition ceased and the compound changed to
a dark purple, which faded again more slowly to a watery green. My visitor,
who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down
the glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of
175 scrutiny.
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"And now," said he, "to settle what remains. Will you be wise? will you be
guided? will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand and to go forth from
your house without further parley? or has the greed of curiosity too much
command of you? Think before you answer, for it shall be done as you
180 decide. As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither
richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal
distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul. Or, if you shall so
prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame
and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and
185 your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan."
"Sir," said I, affecting a coolness that I was far from truly possessing, "you
speak enigmas, and you will perhaps not wonder that I hear you with no very
strong impression of belief. But I have gone too far in the way of inexplicable
services to pause before I see the end."
190 "It is well," replied my visitor. "Lanyon, you remember your vows: what
follows is under the seal of our profession. And now, you who have so long
been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied
the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided your superiors--
behold!"
195 He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled,
staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes,
gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change--
he seemed to swell-- his face became suddenly black and the features
seemed to melt and alter--and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet
200 and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that
prodigy, my mind submerged in terror.
"O God!" I screamed, and "O God!" again and again; for there before my
eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his
hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll!
205 What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I
saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now
when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I
cannot answer. My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest
terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel that my days are
210 numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous. As for the
moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I can
not, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror. I will say but one
thing, Utterson, and that (if you can bring your mind to credit it) will be more
than enough. The creature who crept into my house that night was, on
215 Jekyll's own confession, known by the name of Hyde and hunted for in every
corner of the land as the murderer of Carew.
HASTIE LANYON
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Word Definition
1. intercourse a) ill-formed
2. margin b) sharpened
3. capital c) time to spare

d) beyond normal experience,
4. shipwreck of my reason
magical
5. farrago e) bubbling
6. volatile ether f) clothes
7. whetted g) relationship
8. tincture h) a type of lantern
9. cerebral i) my going mad
10. Bull’s eye j) solution
11. debility k) drop
12. accoutrement l) the greatest
13. misbegotten m) changes
14. disparity n) remarkable thing
15. minim o) riddles
16. ebullition p) confused mixture
17. metamorphoses q) of the brain
18. prodigy r) weakness
19. enigmas s) mismatch
20. transcendental t) chemical used as anaesthetic
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Dr Lanyon talks about how he received a letter from Jekyll. It told him to take
a particular __________________ from his laboratory and return to his house,
where a man would come and collect it from him. Lanyon did as he was told,
and met the man at _____________. The man is a nasty, little man who comes
into the laboratory and gives Lanyon the option to _________________ him
take the ________________. If he does, he will see something that will “ stagger
the unbelief of ________________”. Lanyon then watches Hyde take the drug
and turn into ________________. He realises that Jekyll is _________________ and
that he _________________ Carew. “The __________________” now afflicts him
day and night.
midnight Jekyll watch deadliest terror Satan
drawer Hyde murdered potion
1. Re-read lines 1-57. What are the two things that Jekyll asks Lanyon to do?
What does he hint may happen if things don’t go the way he plans?
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2. Re-read lines 58-98. What does Lanyon find in the drawer that he takes
from Jekyll’s cabinet? What does he conclude about Jekyll?
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3. Re-read lines 99-120. How does Lanyon react to meeting Hyde at his door?
Which words and phrases show you this?
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4. Re-read lines 121-136. What does Lanyon notice about Hyde’s

appearance? What atmosphere does this create and why?
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5. Re-read lines 137-175. What does Hyde want from Lanyon? What does he
do with it?
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6. Re-read Hyde’s conversation with Lanyon in ll. 176-194. How does this link
to the Victorian context of scientific progress and religion?
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7. Re-read ll. 195-217. What does Lanyon see happen to Hyde? Given what
you know about the Victorian context, why does he react so strongly?
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CHAPTER 9: DR LANYON’S NARRATIVE
Quotation
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follows.
In this extract Lanyon describes witnessing Hyde’s transformation in Dr Jekyll.
He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he
reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with
injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there
came, I thought, a change--he seemed to swell-- his face became
5 suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter--and the
next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the
wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind
submerged in terror.
"O God!" I screamed, and "O God!" again and again; for there
10 before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping
before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there
stood Henry Jekyll!
What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on
paper. I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened
15 at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask
myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer. My life is shaken to its roots;
sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the
day and night; and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I
must die; and yet I shall die incredulous. As for the moral turpitude
20 that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I can not,
even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror. I will say but one
thing, Utterson, and that (if you can bring your mind to credit it) will
be more than enough. The creature who crept into my house that
night was, on Jekyll's own confession, known by the name of Hyde
25 and hunted for in every corner of the land as the murderer of Carew.
0 7 Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present the tension
between religion and science?
Write about:
o How Stevenson presents the tension between religion and science in
this extract
o How Stevenson presents the tension between religion and science in
the novel as a whole.
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Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
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I was born in the year 18-- to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent
parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good
among my fellowmen, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every
guarantee of an honorurable and distinguished future. And indeed the worst
5 of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made
the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my
imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly
grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I
concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and
10 began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the
world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me. Many a man
would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the
high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost
morbid sense of shame. It was thus rather the exacting nature of my
15 aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what
I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in
me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual
nature. In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that
hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most
20 plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no
sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more
myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I
laboured, in the eye of day, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of
sorrow and suffering. And it chanced that the direction of my scientific
25 studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, reacted
and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my
members. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral
and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial
discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not
30 truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge
does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on
the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a
mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens. I, for my
part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in
35 one direction only. It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I
learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of
the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I
could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both;
and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries
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40 had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had
learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of
the separation of these elements. If each, I told myself, could be housed in
separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the
unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his
45 more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his
upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no
longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous
evil. It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus
bound together--that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar
50 twins should be continuously struggling. How, then were they dissociated?
I was so far in my reflections when, as I have said, a side light began to
shine upon the subject from the laboratory table. I began to perceive more
deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the
mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.
55 Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and pluck back that
fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion. For two
good reasons, I will not enter deeply into this scientific branch of my
confession. First, because I have been made to learn that the doom and
burthen of our life is bound for ever on man's shoulders, and when the
60 attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and
more awful pressure. Second, because, as my narrative will make, alas! too
evident, my discoveries were incomplete. Enough then, that I not only
recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of
the powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by
65 which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a
second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me
because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in
my soul.
I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice. I knew well
70 that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the
very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the
least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that
immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change. But the temptation of a
discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of
75 alarm. I had long since prepared my tincture; I purchased at once, from a
firm of wholesale chemists, a large quantity of a particular salt which I knew,
from my experiments, to be the last ingredient required; and late one
accursed night, I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke
together in the glass, and when the ebullition had subsided, with a strong
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80 glow of courage, drank off the potion.
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly
nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of
birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to
myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my
85 sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly
sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a
heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a
millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but
not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this
90 new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original
evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine. I
stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these sensations; and in
the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature.
There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me
95 as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these
transformations. The night however, was far gone into the morning--the
morning, black as it was, was nearly ripe for the conception of the day--the
inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber; and I
determined, flushed as I was with hope and triumph, to venture in my new
100 shape as far as to my bedroom. I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations
looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature
of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole
through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I
saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
105 I must here speak by theory alone, saying not that which I know, but that
which I suppose to be most probable. The evil side of my nature, to which I
had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less
developed than the good which I had just deposed. Again, in the course of
my life, which had been, after all, nine tenths a life of effort, virtue and
110 control, it had been much less exercised and much less exhausted. And
hence, as I think, it came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller,
slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll. Even as good shone upon the
countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of
the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man)
115 had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I
looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance,
rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and
human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express
and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto
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120 accustomed to call mine. And in so far I was doubtless right. I have observed
that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to
me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because
all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil:
and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
125 I lingered but a moment at the mirror: the second and conclusive
experiment had yet to be attempted; it yet remained to be seen if I had lost
my identity beyond redemption and must flee before daylight from a house
that was no longer mine; and hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more
prepared and drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution,
130 and came to myself once more with the character, the stature and the face
of Henry Jekyll.
That night I had come to the fatal cross-roads. Had I approached my
discovery in a more noble spirit, had I risked the experiment while under the
empire of generous or pious aspirations, all must have been otherwise, and
135 from these agonies of death and birth, I had come forth an angel instead of
a fiend. The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor
divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition; and like the
captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth. At that time my virtue
slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the
140 occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde. Hence,
although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was
wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll, that incongruous
compound of whose reformation and improvement I had already learned to
despair. The movement was thus wholly toward the worse.
145 Even at that time, I had not conquered my aversions to the dryness of a life
of study. I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were
(to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly
considered, but growing towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life
was daily growing more unwelcome. It was on this side that my new power
150 tempted me until I fell in slavery. I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once
the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of
Edward Hyde. I smiled at the notion; it seemed to me at the time to be
humourous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care. I took
and furnished that house in Soho, to which Hyde was tracked by the police;
155 and engaged as a housekeeper a creature whom I knew well to be silent
and unscrupulous. On the other side, I announced to my servants that a Mr.
Hyde (whom I described) was to have full liberty and power about my house
in the square; and to parry mishaps, I even called and made myself a familiar
object, in my second character. I next drew up that will to which you so
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160 much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr. Jekyll, I
could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss. And thus fortified,
as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit by the strange immunities of my
position.
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own
165 person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his
pleasures. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of
genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these
lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty. But for me, in my
impenetrable mantle, the safely was complete. Think of it--I did not even
170 exist! Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or
two to mix and swallow the draught that I had always standing ready; and
whatever he had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of
breath upon a mirror; and there in his stead, quietly at home, trimming the
midnight lamp in his study, a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion,
175 would be Henry Jekyll.
The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have
said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of
Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would
come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder
180 at my vicarious depravity. This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and
sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and
villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with
bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of
stone. Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde; but
185 the situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp
of conscience. It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. Jekyll
was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired; he
would even make haste, where it was possible, to undo the evil done by
Hyde. And thus his conscience slumbered.
190 Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can
scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering; I mean but to
point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement
approached. I met with one accident which, as it brought on no
consequence, I shall no more than mention. An act of cruelty to a child
195 aroused against me the anger of a passer-by, whom I recognised the other
day in the person of your kinsman; the doctor and the child's family joined
him; there were moments when I feared for my life; and at last, in order to
pacify their too just resentment, Edward Hyde had to bring them to the door,
and pay them in a cheque drawn in the name of Henry Jekyll. But this danger
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200 was easily eliminated from the future, by opening an account at another
bank in the name of Edward Hyde himself; and when, by sloping my own
hand backward, I had supplied my double with a signature, I thought I sat
beyond the reach of fate.
Some two months before the, murder of Sir Danvers, I had been out for one
205 of my adventures, had returned at a late hour, and woke the next day in bed
with somewhat odd sensations. It was in vain I looked about me; in vain I saw
the decent furniture and tall proportions of my room in the square; in vain
that I recognised the pattern of the bed curtains and the design of the
mahogany frame; something still kept insisting that I was not where I was, that
210 I had not wakened where I seemed to be, but in the little room in Soho where
I was accustomed to sleep in the body of Edward Hyde. I smiled to myself,
and in my psychological way, began lazily to inquire into the elements of this
illusion, occasionally, even as I did so, dropping back into a comfortable
morning doze. I was still so engaged when, in one of my more wakeful
215 moments, my eyes fell upon my hand. Now the hand of Henry Jekyll (as you
have often remarked) was professional in shape and size: it was large, firm,
white and comely. But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the
yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was
lean, corder, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart
220 growth of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hyde.
I must have stared upon it for near half a minute, sunk as I was in the mere
stupidity of wonder, before terror woke up in my breast as sudden and
startling as the crash of cymbals; and bounding from my bed I rushed to the
mirror. At the sight that met my eyes, my blood was changed into something
225 exquisitely thin and icy. Yes, I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened
Edward Hyde. How was this to be explained? I asked myself; and then, with
another bound of terror--how was it to be remedied? It was well on in the
morning; the servants were up; all my drugs were in the cabinet--a long
journey down two pairs of stairs, through the back passage, across the open
230 court and through the anatomical theatre, from where I was then standing
horror-struck. It might indeed be possible to cover my face; but of what use
was that, when I was unable to conceal the alteration in my stature? And
then with an overpowering sweetness of relief, it came back upon my mind
that the servants were already used to the coming and going of my second
235 self. I had soon dressed, as well as I was able, in clothes of my own size: had
soon passed through the house, where Bradshaw stared and drew back at
seeing Mr. Hyde at such an hour and in such a strange array; and ten minutes
later, Dr. Jekyll had returned to his own shape and was sitting down, with a
darkened brow, to make a feint of breakfasting.
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240 Small indeed was my appetite. This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my
previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be
spelling out the letters of my judgment; and I began to reflect more seriously
than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence. That
part of me which I had the power of projecting, had lately been much
245 exercised and nourished; it had seemed to me of late as though the body of
Edward Hyde had grown in stature, as though (when I wore that form) I were
conscious of a more generous tide of blood; and I began to spy a danger
that, if this were much prolonged, the balance of my nature might be
permanently overthrown, the power of voluntary change be forfeited, and
250 the character of Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine. The power of the
drug had not been always equally displayed. Once, very early in my career,
it had totally failed me; since then I had been obliged on more than one
occasion to double, and once, with infinite risk of death, to treble the
amount; and these rare uncertainties had cast hitherto the sole shadow on
255 my contentment. Now, however, and in the light of that morning's accident, I
was led to remark that whereas, in the beginning, the difficulty had been to
throw off the body of Jekyll, it had of late gradually but decidedly transferred
itself to the other side. All things therefore seemed to point to this; that I was
slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly
260 incorporated with my second and worse.
Between these two, I now felt I had to choose. My two natures had
memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared
between them. Jekyll (who was composite) now with the most sensitive
apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected and shared in the
265 pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but
remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he
conceals himself from pursuit. Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde
had more than a son's indifference. To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to
those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to
270 pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and
aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless.
The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration
in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence,
Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost. Strange as my
275 circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace
as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any
tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a
majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in
the strength to keep to it.
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280 Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends
and cherishing honest hopes; and bade a resolute farewell to the liberty, the
comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that
I had enjoyed in the disguise of Hyde. I made this choice perhaps with some
unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor
285 destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet. For
two months, however, I was true to my determination; for two months, I led a
life of such severity as I had never before attained to, and enjoyed the
compensations of an approving conscience. But time began at last to
obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to
290 grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings,
as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral
weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming
draught.
I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice,
295 he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs
through his brutish, physical insensibility; neither had I, long as I had
considered my position, made enough allowance for the complete moral
insensibility and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading
characters of Edward Hyde. Yet it was by these that I was punished. My devil
300 had been long caged, he came out roaring. I was conscious, even when I
took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill. It must
have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul that tempest of impatience
with which I listened to the civilities of my unhappy victim; I declare, at least,
before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon
305 so pitiful a provocation; and that I struck in no more reasonable spirit than
that in which a sick child may break a plaything. But I had voluntarily stripped
myself of all those balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues
to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptations; and in my case,
to be tempted, however slightly, was to fall.
310 Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I
mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not
till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my
delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror. A mist dispersed; I
saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once
315 glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life
screwed to the topmost peg. I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make
assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the
lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime,
light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still
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320 hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger. Hyde had a song upon
his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it, pledged the
dead man. The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before
Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon
his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God. The veil of self-indulgence was
325 rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole: I followed it up from the days
of childhood, when I had walked with my father's hand, and through the self-
denying toils of my professional life, to arrive again and again, with the same
sense of unreality, at the damned horrors of the evening. I could have
screamed aloud; I sought with tears and prayers to smother down the crowd
330 of hideous images and sounds with which my memory swarmed against me;
and still, between the petitions, the ugly face of my iniquity stared into my
soul. As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded
by a sense of joy. The problem of my conduct was solved. Hyde was
thenceforth impossible; whether I would or not, I was now confined to the
335 better part of my existence; and O, how I rejoiced to think of it! with what
willing humility I embraced anew the restrictions of natural life! with what
sincere renunciation I locked the door by which I had so often gone and
come, and ground the key under my heel!
The next day, came the news that the murder had been overlooked, that
340 the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim was a man
high in public estimation. It was not only a crime, it had been a tragic folly. I
think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus
buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold. Jekyll was now my city
of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would
345 be raised to take and slay him.
I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with
honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good. You know yourself how
earnestly, in the last months of the last year, I laboured to relieve suffering;
you know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly,
350 almost happily for myself. Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent
and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I
was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my
penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently
chained down, began to growl for licence. Not that I dreamed of
355 resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was
in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience;
and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of
temptation.
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at
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360 last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of
my soul. And yet I was not alarmed; the fall seemed natural, like a return to
the old days before I had made my discovery. It was a fine, clear, January
day, wet under foot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and
the Regent's Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odours. I
365 sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory;
the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet
moved to begin. After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I
smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active good-will
with the lazy cruelty of their neglect. And at the very moment of that
370 vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most
deadly shuddering. These passed away, and left me faint; and then as in its
turn faintness subsided, I began to be aware of a change in the temper of
my thoughts, a greater boldness, a contempt of danger, a solution of the
bonds of obligation. I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my
375 shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I was
once more Edward Hyde. A moment before I had been safe of all men's
respect, wealthy, beloved--the cloth laying for me in the dining-room at
home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a
known murderer, thrall to the gallows.
380 My reason wavered, but it did not fail me utterly. I have more than once
observed that in my second character, my faculties seemed sharpened to a
point and my spirits more tensely elastic; thus it came about that, where Jekyll
perhaps might have succumbed, Hyde rose to the importance of the
moment. My drugs were in one of the presses of my cabinet; how was I to
385 reach them? That was the problem that (crushing my temples in my hands) I
set myself to solve. The laboratory door I had closed. If I sought to enter by
the house, my own servants would consign me to the gallows. I saw I must
employ another hand, and thought of Lanyon. How was he to be reached?
how persuaded? Supposing that I escaped capture in the streets, how was I
390 to make my way into his presence? and how should I, an unknown and
displeasing visitor, prevail on the famous physician to rifle the study of his
colleague, Dr. Jekyll? Then I remembered that of my original character, one
part remained to me: I could write my own hand; and once I had conceived
that kindling spark, the way that I must follow became lighted up from end to
395 end.
Thereupon, I arranged my clothes as best I could, and summoning a
passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street, the name of which I
chanced to remember. At my appearance (which was indeed comical
enough, however tragic a fate these garments covered) the driver could not
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400 conceal his mirth. I gnashed my teeth upon him with a gust of devilish fury;
and the smile withered from his face--happily for him--yet more happily for
myself, for in another instant I had certainly dragged him from his perch. At
the inn, as I entered, I looked about me with so black a countenance as
made the attendants tremble; not a look did they exchange in my presence;
405 but obsequiously took my orders, led me to a private room, and brought me
wherewithal to write. Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me;
shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict
pain. Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the
will; composed his two important letters, one to Lanyon and one to Poole;
410 and that he might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them
out with directions that they should be registered. Thenceforward, he sat all
day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting
alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence,
when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab,
415 and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city. He, I say--I cannot say,
I. That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and
hatred. And when at last, thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious,
he discharged the cab and ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes,
an object marked out for observation, into the midst of the nocturnal
420 passengers, these two base passions raged within him like a tempest. He
walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the
less frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from
midnight. Once a woman spoke to him, offering, I think, a box of lights. He
smote her in the face, and she fled.
425 When I came to myself at Lanyon's, the horror of my old friend perhaps
affected me somewhat: I do not know; it was at least but a drop in the sea to
the abhorrence with which I looked back upon these hours. A change had
come over me. It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of
being Hyde that racked me. I received Lanyon's condemnation partly in a
430 dream; it was partly in a dream that I came home to my own house and got
into bed. I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound
slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break. I
awoke in the morning shaken, weakened, but refreshed. I still hated and
feared the thought of the brute that slept within me, and I had not of course
435 forgotten the appalling dangers of the day before; but I was once more at
home, in my own house and close to my drugs; and gratitude for my escape
shone so strong in my soul that it almost rivalled the brightness of hope.
I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast, drinking the chill of
the air with pleasure, when I was seized again with those indescribable
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440 sensations that heralded the change; and I had but the time to gain the
shelter of my cabinet, before I was once again raging and freezing with the
passions of Hyde. It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to
myself; and alas! six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire, the pangs
returned, and the drug had to be re-administered. In short, from that day
445 forth it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics, and only under the
immediate stimulation of the drug, that I was able to wear the countenance
of Jekyll. At all hours of the day and night, I would be taken with the
premonitory shudder; above all, if I slept, or even dozed for a moment in my
chair, it was always as Hyde that I awakened. Under the strain of this
450 continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now
condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I
became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever,
languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought:
the horror of my other self. But when I slept, or when the virtue of the
455 medicine wore off, I would leap almost without transition (for the pangs of
transformation grew daily less marked) into the possession of a fancy
brimming with images of terror, a soul boiling with causeless hatreds, and a
body that seemed not strong enough to contain the raging energies of life.
The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll. And
460 certainly the hate that now divided them was equal on each side. With
Jekyll, it was a thing of vital instinct. He had now seen the full deformity of that
creature that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness, and
was co-heir with him to death: and beyond these links of community, which
in themselves made the most poignant part of his distress, he thought of
465 Hyde, for all his energy of life, as of something not only hellish but inorganic.
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and
voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was
dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that
that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay
470 caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born;
and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed
against him, and deposed him out of life. The hatred of Hyde for Jekyll was of
a different order. His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit
temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a
475 person; but he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into
which Jekyll was now fallen, and he resented the dislike with which he was
himself regarded. Hence the ape-like tricks that he would play me, scrawling
in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters
and destroying the portrait of my father; and indeed, had it not been for his
480 fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me
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in the ruin. But his love of me is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and
freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of
this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by
suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him.
485 It is useless, and the time awfully fails me, to prolong this description; no one
has ever suffered such torments, let that suffice; and yet even to these, habit
brought--no, not alleviation--but a certain callousness of soul, a certain
acquiescence of despair; and my punishment might have gone on for years,
but for the last calamity which has now fallen, and which has finally severed
490 me from my own face and nature. My provision of the salt, which had never
been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low. I sent
out for a fresh supply and mixed the draught; the ebullition followed, and the
first change of colour, not the second; I drank it and it was without efficiency.
You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked; it was in vain;
495 and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure, and that it was that
unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.
About a week has passed, and I am now finishing this statement under the
influence of the last of the old powders. This, then, is the last time, short of a
miracle, that Henry Jekyll can think his own thoughts or see his own face (now
500 how sadly altered!) in the glass. Nor must I delay too long to bring my writing
to an end; for if my narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by
a combination of great prudence and great good luck. Should the throes of
change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some
time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and
505 circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the
action of his ape-like spite. And indeed the doom that is closing on us both
has already changed and crushed him. Half an hour from now, when I shall
again and forever reindue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit
shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and
510 fearstruck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last
earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace. Will Hyde die upon
the scaffold? or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment?
God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow
concerns another than myself. Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed
515 to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an
end.
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Word Definition
1. honourable a) successful
2. distinguished b) two-faced person
3. imperious c) different aspects of my personality
4. degradation d) self-control
e) relating to humans in an early
5. double-dealer
stage of development
6. duplicity f) chemical
7. restraint g) disgust
8. my members h) good
9. primitive i) famous for doing bad things
10. duality j) being saved from sin

k) Humiliation / shame / being
11. supremacy
brought down
12. salt l) beast-like
13. obligation m) uncontrolled
14. repugnance n) sudden, strong desires
15. redemption o) arrogant
16. mantle p) Lying / hypocrisy

q) The idea that we have a dual
17. bestial
nature of good vs evil
18. infamy r) duty
19. impulses s) cloak
20. unbridled t) Ruling position
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Jekyll talks about how he has had, since an early age, two sides to his nature:
the ______________ and the ________________. When he became a scientist he
became obsessed with how to separate these two elements of the human
soul until one night he made a mixture which did precisely that: he became
another _____________, he became _______________. When he drank the
potion again, he turned back into _________________. He enjoyed changing
into Hyde and doing whatever he wanted without being ______________. He
set up the laboratory for _________________ to live in, and ordered the servants
to obey him. Things were tricky when Hyde was caught for trampling on the
little girl and he had to pay compensation with a cheque written by Henry
Jekyll. After this, Jekyll opened a bank account for _________________. Two
months before the murder of Carew, Jekyll found that he went to sleep as
Jekyll but woke up as Hyde without taking the _________________. As a result,
he decided not to take the potion but to be Jekyll all the time, until one night
he lost his __________________ and took the potion. It had a very strong
____________________ and he murdered Carew as a result. From then
onwards, he decided ________________ to become Hyde again. His dark side
got the better of him and he did some bad things as ______________. This
caused him to ___________________ into Hyde without taking the potion, while
he was at Regent’s Park. He didn’t know what to do. He decided to ask
Lanyon to fetch the drugs from his laboratory, and then visited Lanyon where
he took the _______________ and changed back into Jekyll. From that
moment onwards, he has had to take more and more drugs just to stay as
________________. Hyde was ___________________ over. He knows that either he
will be hanged as the __________________ of Carew, or he will manage to
_________________ himself.
taking caught potion murderer effect
Jekyll kill Hyde bad Hyde
drugs self-control change Jekyll person
Edward Hyde good Jekyll never
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1. Re-read lines 1-50. What kind of childhood did Jekyll have? When did he
start to become duplicitous and why?
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2. Re-read lines 51-104. What does Jekyll decide to do and why? How does
he feel after taking the potion for the first time?
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3. Re-read lines 104-144. According to Jekyll, how is Hyde different from

himself? How does he feel about the creation of this creature? Why does
he think that Hyde can take hold so easily?
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4. Re-read lines 145-203. What does Jekyll do to allow Hyde to live freely?
How does he feel about Hyde’s actions?
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5. Re-read lines 203-260. What Happens when Jekyll wakes up after one of
his adventures? Why does this surprise/scare him?
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6. Re-read lines 261-293. What does Jekyll do to stop Hyde from being
discovered? How long does he go before turning into Hyde again? Why
does he do this?
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7. Re-read lines 294-358. What happens when Jekyll finally lets Hyde out?
What does he do in response?
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8. Re-read lines 359-424. What does Jekyll do when he feels the urge to turn
into Hyde? What happens in Regents Park and how does Jekyll respond?
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9. Re-read lines 425-484. What does Hyde do while he waits to change back
into Jekyll? What continues to happen more frequently in this section?
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10. Re-read lines 485-515. Why do Jekyll and Hyde detest each other? What
does Jekyll do at the end and why?
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e) Chapter 10 Practice Question 1
Read the following extract from Chapter 10 and then answer the question
that follows.
In this extract Dr Jekyll describes the experience of transforming into Mr Hyde.
The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the
stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the
good which I had just deposed. Again, in the course of my life, which
had been, after all, nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue, and control, it
5 had been much less exercised and much less exhausted. And
hence, as I think, it came about that Edward Hyde was so much
smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll. Even as good shone
upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and
plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe
10 to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of
deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in
the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of
welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my
eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and
15 single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been
hitherto accustomed to call mine. And in so far I was doubtless right.
I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde,
none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the
flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet
20 them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde,
alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. […]
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition,
was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was
projected was Edward Hyde. Hence, although I had now two
25 characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the
other was still the old Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound of
whose reformation and improvement I had already learned to
despair. The movement was thus wholly toward the worse.
Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson explore the dark side of
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human nature?
Write about:
o How Stevenson explores the dark side of human nature in this extract
o How Stevenson explores the dark side of human nature in the novel as
a whole.
[30 marks]
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f) Chapter 10 Practice Question 2
Read the following extract from Chapter 10 and then answer the question
that follows.
In this extract Dr Jekyll confesses trying to repress Mr Hyde.
Time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of
conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured
with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in
an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the
5 transforming draught.
I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice,
he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs
through his brutish, physical insensibility; neither had I, long as I had
considered my position, made enough allowance for the complete moral
10 insensibility and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading
characters of Edward Hyde. Yet it was by these that I was punished. My
devil had been long caged, he came out roaring. I was conscious, even
when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to
ill. It must have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul that tempest of
15 impatience with which I listened to the civilities of my unhappy victim; I
declare, at least, before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty
of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation; and that I struck in no more
reasonable spirit than that in which a sick child may break a plaything. But I
had voluntarily stripped myself of all those balancing instincts by which
20 even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness
among temptations; and in my case, to be tempted, however slightly, was
to fall.
Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I
mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was
25 not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit
of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror. A mist
dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these
excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and
stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg.
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Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present uncontrollable desire?
Write about:
o How Stevenson presents uncontrollable desire in this extract
o How Stevenson presents uncontrollable desire in the novel as a whole.
[30 marks]
Additional Revision Notes: Key Context and Themes
1. Context
a) Context Definitions Match-Up

a) A set of gloomy and horrifying story features
1. Morality
favoured by Victorian writers
2. Duality b) Someone who does not fit into society
c) The belief that men evolved from apes, rather
3. The gothic than being created in the perfect image of
God
4. Supernatural d) A set of rules about what is right and wrong
e) The beliefs or opinions that other people have
5. Christianity
about a person
6. Secrecy f) Something that is beyond human
g) Stopping yourself from acting on immoral or
7. Violence
primitive desires
8. Reputation h) The atmosphere that is created in the novel
9. The outsider i) The idea that people are both good and evil
10. Fear and
j) The dangerous and hurtful acts of Hyde
confusion
11. Darwinism k) Being good in public and immoral in private
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12. Repression l) Belief in God and the devil, heaven and hell
b) Victorian ideas about Civilization and Progress

In its narrative of a respectable doctor who transforms himself into a savage
murderer, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tapped directly into the anxieties of the
Victorian era. It was a time of fast technological progress and an age in
which Britain was exploring the world and expanding its empire. By the end of
the century, however, many people were beginning to question the ideals of
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progress and civilization that had defined the era.
With the idea of one body containing both the good Dr Jekyll and evil Mr
Hyde, Stevenson’s novel demonstrates the close link between civilization and
savagery, good and evil. Jekyll’s attraction to the freedom from restraint that
Hyde enjoys mirrors Victorian England’s secret attraction to allegedly
‘savage’ non-Western cultures, even as Europe claimed superiority over
them. Even as Victorian England tried to reject these instinctual sides of life –
such as violence, aggression and impulsivity – it found them secretly
fascinating. Indeed, society’s repression of its darker side only increased the
fascination. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shows this fascination in De Jekyll’s interest
in Mr Hyde, but his horrible end makes us questions the dangers of this
interest.
c) The Fear of the Primitive
In Jekyll and Hyde, Stevenson sets up a strong contrast between the primitive,
savage, animalistic self and the civilized, respectable self.
One way to understand ‘primitive’ is to think of a toddler or small animal, or
basic human urges – greedy, selfish, not polite. The primitive self doesn’t
understand social conventions or taboos (=things you shouldn’t do). It's easily
frightened, quick to fight. In adults, there are basic lusts and desires. No
understanding of law.
This is represented by Mr Hyde. He is the personification not just of evil, but of
‘primitive’ human urges. He is a very extreme version of something we all
have inside, but which we keep hidden. In Freudian psychology, this selfish,
basic part of our nature is called the Id. The Id is usually kept in balance with
the other parts of our nature. We may want to be greedy, lustful, rude, etc.,
but we have been brought up to be polite and have self-control, and
respect other people, not just ourselves. We (unlike Mr Hyde) are civilized and
‘respectable’. We care what society (other people) think of us. In Jekyll and
Hyde, society and civilization are represented (‘personified’) by Lanyon and
Utterson (among others).
The Victorians feared that our primitive self was always trying to break out
from our self-control. This constant battle between our primitive and civilized
selves causes tension.
Think about how violently the respectable characters in the book always
want to stamp Hyde out. They dislike him violently, and even want to kill him.
This contrast shows the conflict between primitive urges and civilization.
d) Scientific Progress, Evolution and Darwinism
Before Jekyll and Hyde was written, Charles Darwin discovered that man was
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a form of ape, a type of animal. This was a big problem. Animals, and
‘nature’ were thought of as brutal and primitive. Also, if man were a type of
animal, this raised questions about Christian beliefs. This shocked Victorians
and let to a crisis of faith and identity. Stevenson shows this tension by
showing how people are terrified by Hyde’s ape-like, primitive behaviour. In
Hyde, Stevenson shows us the horror of the troglodytic man-as-ape in
contrast to the more pleasing idea of man as god-like.
In the novel, religion and science are strong themes which are often in
conflict. Jekyll’s ‘fantastic’ experiments are so shocking to the respectable,
conventional Dr Lanyon that they kill him, and indeed, end up killing Jekyll. At
the darkest moments of the novel there are many appeals to God, none of
which seem to be answered. There is no happy ending in this book. The dark
experiments of science only end in death, destruction and despair.
e) The Duality of Human Nature
Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde centres upon an idea of humanity as dual in nature.
Stevenson waits until Jekyll’s letter in Chapter 10 to explore this idea of dual
human nature explicitly, only after showing us all of the events of the novel,
including Hyde’s crimes and Jekyll’s ultimate death.
Jekyll asserts that “man is not truly one, but truly two,” and he imagines the
human soul as the battleground for an “angel” and a “fiend,” each
struggling for mastery. But his potion, which he hoped would separate and
purify each element, succeeds only in bringing the dark side into being—
Hyde emerges, but he has no angelic counterpart. Once unleashed, Hyde
slowly takes over, until Jekyll ceases to exist. If man is half angel and half
fiend, one wonders what happens to the “angel” at the end of the novel.
Perhaps the angel gives way permanently to Jekyll’s devil. Or perhaps Jekyll is
simply mistaken: man is not “truly two” but is first and foremost the primitive
creature embodied in Hyde, brought under temporary control by civilization,
law, and conscience. According to this theory, the potion simply strips away
the mask of civilisation, to reveal man’s essential nature. Certainly, the novel
goes out of its way to paint Hyde as animalistic—he is hairy and ugly; he
conducts himself according to instinct rather than reason; Utterson describes
him as a “troglodyte,” or primitive creature.
Yet if Hyde were just an animal, we would not expect him to take such
delight in crime. Indeed, he seems to commit violent acts against innocents
for no reason except the joy of it—something that no animal would do. He
appears deliberately and happily immoral rather than amoral; he knows the
moral law and basks in his breach of it. For an animalistic creature,
furthermore, Hyde seems oddly at home in the urban landscape. All of these
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observations imply that perhaps civilization, too, has its dark side.
Ultimately, while Stevenson clearly shows human nature as possessing two
aspects, he leaves us to question whether we are truly both good and evil, or
whether we have to pretend to be good to hide the evil lurking beneath.
f) The Importance of Reputation
For the characters in Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, preserving one’s reputation
emerges as all important. The significance of this value system is evident in
the way that gentlemen such as Utterson and Enfield avoid gossip at all costs;
they see gossip as a great destroyer of reputation. Similarly, when Utterson
suspects Jekyll first of being blackmailed and then of sheltering Hyde from the
police, he does not make his suspicions known; part of being Jekyll’s good
friend is a willingness to keep his secrets and not ruin his respectability. The
importance of reputation in the novel also reflects the importance of
appearances, which often hide a sordid underside. In many instances in the
novel, Utterson, true to his Victorian society, strongly wishes not only to
preserve Jekyll’s reputation but also to preserve the appearance of order
and decorum, even as he senses a vile truth lurking underneath.
2. Key Themes and Symbols
a) Violence Against Innocents
The text repeatedly depicts Hyde as a creature of great evil and countless
vices. Although the reader learns the details of only two of Hyde’s crimes, the
nature of both underlines his evil and depravity. Both involve violence
directed against innocents in particular. In the first instance, the victim of
Hyde’s violence is a small, female child whom he tramples; in the second
instance, it is a gentle and much-beloved old man. The fact that Hyde injures
a girl and ruthlessly murders a man, neither of whom has done anything to
provoke his rage or to deserve death, emphasises the extreme immorality of
Jekyll’s dark side when it is unleashed. Hyde’s brand of evil represents not just
a lapse from good but an outright attack on it.
b) Secrecy and Silence
Repeatedly in the novel, characters fail to speak or refuse to articulate
themselves. Either they seem unable to put the horrifying sights they have
seen into words, such as the physical characteristics of Hyde, or they
deliberately avoid certain conversations. Enfield and Utterson cut off their
discussion of Hyde in the first chapter out of a distaste for gossip; Utterson
refuses to share his suspicions about Jekyll throughout his investigation of his
client’s situation. Moreover, neither Jekyll in his final confession nor the third-
person narrator in the rest of the novel ever provides any details of Hyde’s evil
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behaviour and secret vices.
The characters’ refusal to discuss the shocking and immoral reflects the
Victorian belief in hiding sins in secret. Victorian society believed in reputation
above all and preferred to repress or even deny the truth if that truth
threatened to expose immorality.
c) Urban Terror
Throughout the novel, Stevenson establishes a link between the urban (city)
landscape of Victorian London and the dark events surrounding Hyde. He
achieves this effect through the use of nightmarish imagery, in which dark
streets twist and coil, or lie draped in fog, forming a sinister landscape to
conceal the crimes that take place there. Chilling visions of the city appear in
Utterson’s nightmares as well, and the text notes that:
He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city.... The
figure [of Hyde] … haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed
over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or
move the more swiftly… through wider labyrinths of lamp-lighted city, and at
every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming.
In such images, Stevenson paints Hyde as an urban creature, utterly at home
in the darkness of London—where countless crimes take place, the novel
suggests, without anyone knowing.
d) Jekyll’s House and Laboratory
Dr Jekyll lives in an expensive home, characterised by Stevenson as having “a
great air of wealth and comfort.” His laboratory is described as “a certain
sinister block of building … [which] bore in every feature the marks of
profound and sordid negligence.” With its decaying walls and door and air of
neglect, the laboratory quite neatly symbolises the corrupt and immoral
Hyde. Similarly, the respectable, wealthy-looking main house symbolises the
respectable, moral Jekyll. Moreover, the connection between the buildings
represents the connection between the duality they represent. The buildings
are adjoined but look out on two different streets. It is not at first clear that the
two doors are part of the same residence, just as we are at first unable to
detect the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde.
e) Hyde’s Physical Appearance
According to the vague and indefinite remarks made by his overwhelmed
observers, Hyde appears repulsively ugly and deformed, small, shrunken, and
hairy. His physical ugliness and deformity symbolises his moral hideousness
and warped ethics. Indeed, for a Victorian reader, the connection between
such ugliness and Hyde’s wickedness might have been seen as more than
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symbolic. Many people believed in the science of physiognomy, which held
that one could identify a criminal by physical appearance. Additionally,
Hyde’s small stature may represent the fact that, as Jekyll’s dark side, he has
been repressed for years, prevented from growing and flourishing. His
hairiness may indicate that he is not so much an evil side of Jekyll as the
embodiment of Jekyll’s instincts, the primitive and animalistic core beneath
Jekyll’s polished exterior.
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AQA GCSE Literature Paper 1

3. backward in sentiment c) lack of care and maintenance

5. mortify a taste for vintages e) stained

f) Creatures from Greek mythology –

i) A huge creature or machine that

10. Replied in the affirmative j) Said ‘yes’

k) The huntsman’s shout when the fox

12. View halloa l) Face

13. Sawbones m) Reputation, good name

n) Person who prepares or sells

15. Credit o) Strict

16. Harpies p) Slang for doctor

17. Struck q) Slow to show emotion

18. Queer street r) Extra careful about the details

Henry Jekyll genuine door trouble

respectable blackmailed trample on £100 girl

c) Chapter 1 Short Answer Questions:

1. Re-read lines 1-25. What sort of person is Mr Utterson? How does

2. Re-read lines 26-45. What is Mr Utterson’s relationship to Mr Enfield? How

4. Re-read Mr Enfield’s account of meeting Mr Hyde (ll. 64-120). How does

Choose 5 significant quotations from Chapter 1 to memorise.

Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present Mr Hyde as

a) Chapter 2 Cloze Activity

Utterson visits _________________, a friend of Jekyll’s, to find out more, but

On waking, Utterson is determined to find out what Hyde _________________ so

face address fallen out will obey

3. benefactor c) very great/without limit

4. protégé d) like a cave man

7. inordinate g) accept bad behaviour

i) a person who is guided by an

10. troglodytic j) evil/wrong-doing

c) Chapter 2 Short Answer Questions:

4. Why is it significant that Stevenson describes London as a ‘labyrinth’ (l.84)?

Choose 5 significant quotations from Chapter 2 to memorise.

‘We have common friends,’ said Mr Utterson. ‘Common friends!’

0 7 Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present Mr Hyde as a

b) Chapter 3 Cloze Activity

blackmailed dies dinner Mr Hyde

Quotation Connotations or Effect Social/Historical Context

e) Chapter 3 Practice Question

"You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly

‘Dr Jekyll is foolish to think that he can control Mr Hyde.’

"Is this Mr. Hyde a person of small stature?" he inquired.

2. gin palace b) lost courage

3. disposition c) serious face

4. high d) without feeling

8. Grave countenance h) personality

9. quailed i) gloom (coffin blanket)

10. pall j) driving back the fog

11. conflagration k) table linen

12. odious l) friends

13. napery m) fire

14. gratification n) hateful

15. familiars o) day-dreaming

16. routing these embattled p) satisfaction at what he has

b) Chapter 4 Cloze Activity

Mr Utterson bank death broken stick clients

c) Chapter 4 Short Answer Questions:

6. Re-read lines 83-90. Why does Soho appear to be an appropriate home

Choose 5 significant quotations from Chapter 4 to memorise.

2. destination b) glass-fronted cupboards

4. cabinet d) junk mail

5. glass presses e) escorted

6. cheval-glass f) in the dark

‘We have common friends,’ said Mr Utterson. ‘Common friends!’